We’re happy to announce we’re releasing our new Getting Started With Zenoss guide to help ease new users into understanding Zenoss and what it can do for them. It’s intended to help you navigate the application and quickly walk you through several basic tasks that demonstrate Zenoss’ capabilities. After logging in to Zenoss, you [...]

Community member Nathaniel McCallum’s provided instructions for making Zenoss use LDAP or ActiveDirectory for Authentication and Authorization recently had a very important update from Scott Haskell. Users were reporting very slow UI response times and Scott narrowed it down to those installations using LDAP. He tracked down the Zope RAM Cache Manager and [...]

This tip was courtesy of Chet Luther one of our services team.
Normally when you create a threshold, you have to choose the upper and/or lower limits. Sometimes you want these limits to vary considerably for different devices. It can be a lot of work to create many copies of the same template just so you [...]

At Zenoss, we are very fortunate to have a group of very passionate community members.  They are very vocal and they do not hesitate to praise as well as criticize us.  Our forum provides a good medium to capture general requests and rants, but we felt that we also needed to capture great anecdotes and [...]

Today’s news has been peppered with the outage of the Windows Genuine Advantage servers today. Now we aren’t endorsing DRM rights by any means but if you are running mission critical servers you need to look beyond availability monitoring. If the system is customer facing you probably will know by the inquiries from angry customers [...]