Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Tuesday, August 14 at 11am EST in the #zenoss IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (port 6667). Please drop in and bring your questions, answers, suggestions and feedback. See you there!
We’ll log the session and repost them here if you can’t make it.
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Does the way that Zenoss chooses what templates to apply have you confused?
Explanation of Template Binding
Zenoss applies templates in many different and therefore confusing ways. The following is an explanation of the different ways templates get bound and hopefully a logically explanation of why it is done. It is important to remember that the name [...]

Zenoss provides a variety of tools to help you integrate it into other tools. Commonly used are the REST, XML-RPC and Python APIs. Another less-used option is XML. This can be very useful as a read-only integration point because you can get all of the data you need in a single simple transaction and good [...]

The Zenoss Submit a Tip Contest has ended and I would like to thank everyone who submitted tips close to 30 and posted multiple blog entries pointing to Zenoss tips.
The winner was Torben Bøgede Sørensen whose tip was  “How to Setup a Kiosk or Zenoss Overview monitor.” This tip was selected randomly from all entriess.
I [...]

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 [...]