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.
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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 [...]

Today is our last day for our Submit a Tip contest and the Zenoss Wiki is full of new juicy tips.
Some of our latest tips include these from Wooter:
Manually Create Device Dependencies
Rotate Zenoss Logs
Or this tip from Martin:
How to Export Devices from Zenoss to a File
You still have until the end of the day to [...]

Arthur Penn submitted a bunch of Zenoss tips this week on using Zenoss. Here’s his list of helpful documentation for using Zenoss.

Find Zenoss event classes with transforms
Custom Zenoss graph based on multiple data points
Moving a Zenoss event to history via the Transform expression
Move an event in Zenoss from one event class to another based on [...]