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 [...]

In the Zenoss eventsDB there is a table called ‘details’. Maybe you wondered what this table contains. The detail table is used to store the extra fields of events that you see on the Detail tab when you click the magnifying glass on an event. These would include SNMP trap varbinds as well as any [...]

Jacob Smith wrote this How To for Modeling 3COM Devices on Zenoss. His description states:
Many manufacturer specific data is supported by default, but 3Com was left out. This page will show you how to retrieve the switch serial number, product number, and software version.
Read the full tip on the Zenoss wiki along with many [...]