Zenoss Blog http://blog.zenoss.com No Node Left Behind Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:21:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 622254http://www.feedburner.com Zenoss Development on IRC Thursday, August 14 http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/08/07/zenoss-development-on-irc-thursday-august-14/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/08/07/zenoss-development-on-irc-thursday-august-14/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:21:26 +0000 Matt Ray http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=405 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.

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/08/07/zenoss-development-on-irc-thursday-august-14/feed/ Infoworld Best of Open Source http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/08/04/best-open-source-network-monitorin/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/08/04/best-open-source-network-monitorin/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:30:18 +0000 Mark Hinkle http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=394 Best of Open Source Network MonitoringThanks to Infoworld who named Zenoss Core Best of Open Source for Network Monitoring.  Infoworld describes Zenoss as as a scalable and easy-to-use replacement for legacy management architecture.

InfoWorld’s annual BOSSIES recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.

This is quite an honor. Thanks to everyone who has helped make Zenoss Core award-winning.

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/08/04/best-open-source-network-monitorin/feed/ Zenoss Newsletter - July 2008 http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/31/zenoss-newsletter-july-2008/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/31/zenoss-newsletter-july-2008/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:20:06 +0000 Mark Hinkle http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=387 Summer’s here at Zenoss Headquarters and it’s hot… and in our new Austin Engineering Center it’s sweltering. Luckily, that’s keeping us at our desks working on the next versions of Zenoss products.

While we have been working the Zenoss community has been rocking. You have done an awesome job with new ZenPacks and helping other users in the forums. Thank you for your support in making Zenoss the best community driven network management solution ever. To help reward everyone’s contributions we decided to go a little contest crazy this month as a sign of our appreciation.

Latest Versions of Zenoss

We released Zenoss 2.2.3 on July 23rd which includes close to 100 bug fixes and feature enhancements. Zenoss Enterprise continues to improve as well. Take a look, request an evaluation today!

Submit a ZenPack Contest Rolls On

Last month we announced the “Submit a ZenPack Contest” with not one but two great prizes! We have received 15 ZenPacks including ones for Brocade Switches, EMC NAS and a new improved Linux ZenPack. Read the Zenoss blog to find out about some of how you can win an Asus Eee PC laptop.

Tip of the Month: Add Lots of Devices

We are going to give our Zenoss support guru Chet the month off and highlight some FAQs from community member Jim Shank on adding large numbers of devices to Zenoss:

Improve Zenoss, School the New Guy!

We recently hired Brandon Whichard to guide the development of our future Zenoss products. Here’s your chance to be heard by the Zenoss Product Manager on enhancements to Zenoss. Complete the survey and be entered to win an iPod touch.

Testify: Tell us your Story and Win

The best way for people to understand why Zenoss is a great network management solution is to have someone who uses Zenoss everyone explain the benefits. So here’s the deal, tell your Zenoss story, inspire other Zenoss users and win a cool Neuros Open Embedded Media Center.

In The News

See what people are saying about Zenoss this month.

OmniTraining: We Can Ditch Nagios Now

Free Software Magazine: Zenoss: A Great System Monitoring Program which tries to do everything right

SAGE News: Open Source Entperise Monitoring Review

Linux Journal: Zen and the Art of Monitoring

Best Regards,


Mark R. Hinkle
Vice President, Community
Zenoss Inc.

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/31/zenoss-newsletter-july-2008/feed/ Zenoss Testimonials: Win Prizes, Brag Up Your IT Chops http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/30/zenoss-testimonials-win-prizes-brag-up-your-it-chops/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/30/zenoss-testimonials-win-prizes-brag-up-your-it-chops/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:48:17 +0000 Mark Hinkle http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=379 The best way for people to understand why Zenoss is a great network management solution is to have someone who uses Zenoss everyone explain the benefits. So we want you to tell your Zenoss story, inspire other Zenoss users and win a Neuros Open Embedded Media Center.

The Rules

  1. Tell Us Your Zenoss Story. Where you use it, how long you have been using Zenoss, how many devices you monitor, what kinds of things you monitor, the more details the better.
  2. You can use video or written submissions. Just send your entry or a link to your entry to community@zenoss.com,
  3. We understand some organizations might have policies about disclosing details about their organization. If you can’t share your details publicly you can submit the details of your install without identifying your organization by using generic terms like a large electronics manufacturer or a federal government agency. You can also use a pseudonym if required by your employer. (Make sure to include your real name and contact information along with your entry so we can send you your prize if you win).
  4. The best three Zenoss success stories will be chosen by the judges (Matt and Mark, the community dudes and no we don’t accept bribes).
  5. By entering you agree to have your story posted on our websites and used in other public venues.
  6. We will start publishing all the Zenoss testimonials in September.

The Prize: Three Neuros OSDs

The three best user success stories will receive the very cool Neuros OSD. The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theater system and allows you to archive all of your DVD and video content. Plus the Neuros OSD has an open source component just like Zenoss and it is very hackable.

Plug the Neuros OSD into your TV, connect your DVD Player or VCR, and hit play. Your movie will be safely and legally transferred into a digital library! It works with home movies too. Just plug your video camera into the OSD, push play, and your memories are digitized.

With the Neuros OSD, you can store hundreds of hours of video in one location (like an external hard drive), get rid of those bulky cases, put an end to DVD damage, and instantly access any of your videos with the push of a button on a remote. You can even transfer your video content to a portable device (video iPod, PSP, mobile phone, etc.) to watch on the go, or email your home movies to friends and family.

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/30/zenoss-testimonials-win-prizes-brag-up-your-it-chops/feed/ SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/26/sourceforgenet-community-choice-awards/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/26/sourceforgenet-community-choice-awards/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:17:10 +0000 Mark Hinkle http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=377 This week the winners of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards were announced at OSCON. I wanted to thank everyone who voted for us. We were nominated in three categories which was quite a feat. I think this is a testament to the enthusiasm of our users in a relatively small project  (when compared to the likes of Drupal, Linux and OpenOffice.org.

Information Week’s Sergar Yegulaip has coverage of the awards ceremony and a great quote from SourceForge’s Community Manager Ross Turk who has been extremely helpful in making the Zenoss Core project a success.

“One thing I was fairly certain of, since this had happened to me, was that some of Ross’ own favorite projects probably didn’t win anything. In my case, it was 7-Zip and PortableApps, but I was curious what Ross’ favorites were.

“We’d have to be Switzerland to not take sides, but if that wasn’t the case, I wanted Zenoss to win something. And I can say that because I myself have no control over the project!”

Here’s the list of the winners in the categories we were nominated in. I think given that the two projects that edged us out have millions of users and we have thousands makes it tough for us to win (though as fast as people are adopting Zenoss we are hopeful for the future). We would like to offer our congratulations to the following projects.

Thanks again to everyone that voted for Zenoss, and for your continuing support.

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Brocade Switches graphing ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/brocade-switches
Submitted by Community member Vaibhav Narula. It provides a large number of graphs for Brocade switches, the PDF on the page has examples.

Andrea ‘konsa79′ Consadori’s ZenPacks
Andrea gets his own section, he submitted 3 new and 3 updated ZenPacks, bring his total to 7 entries to the contest so far.
Updated
Alvarion WiFi monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/alvarion
Funkwerk router monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/funkwerk
Netasq firewall monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/netasq
New
Colubris wireless monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/colubris
MRV wireless monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/mrv
Raytalk monitoring: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/raytalk

EMC Celerra NAS ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/celerra
Community member Randy Schneiderman has submitted this ZenPack that can be used to monitor EMC’s Celerra filesystem created through the EMC Celerra Network Server instead of the default OS filesystems.

SQL Server 2000/2005 Performance ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/sql-server-performance
Submitted by Community member Fabio Paracchini, this ZenPack is for monitoring SQL Server Performance and works and was tested with SQL 2000 and SQL 2005

BlueCoat Appliances ZenPack
http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/bluecoat
Community member Wouter ‘netdata‘ D’Haeseleer has submitted his ZenPack that monitors BlueCoat Proxy SG and AntiVirus appliances.

For this and other ZenPacks, check out the ZenPacks site: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/

Thanks Vaibhav, Andrea, Randy, Fabio and Wouter!

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/25/the-zenpacks-keep-coming/feed/ Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/25/happy-system-administrator-appreciation-day/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/25/happy-system-administrator-appreciation-day/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:04:18 +0000 Matt Ray http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=365
Happy SysAdmin Day

A big thanks from Zenoss to all you System Administrators out there who keep everything working! Hopefully Zenoss is making your lives easier as you work, thanks for your support. The site: System Administrator Appreciation Day

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/25/happy-system-administrator-appreciation-day/feed/ Zenoss 2.2.3 is now available! http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/23/zenoss-223-is-now-available/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/23/zenoss-223-is-now-available/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:30:59 +0000 Matt Ray http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=363 We are very pleased to announce that the latest stable release of Zenoss, version 2.2.3 is now available for download. The Zenoss team has been hard at work nailing down defects (80+ closed!) and 2.2.3 should be one of our finest releases yet. While this is primarily a maintenance release, a lot of work has gone into testing and improving upgrades and installations.

2.2.3 Release Notes

Tickets closed for 2.2.3

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]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/23/zenoss-223-is-now-available/feed/ Zenoss in the Blogosphere http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/21/zenoss-in-the-blogosphere/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/21/zenoss-in-the-blogosphere/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:12:18 +0000 Mark Hinkle http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=361 Zenny the Zebra and the Future of IT Mangagement - We tried to recruit a new contributor but we are going to wait until he gets to junor high before we expect his first Zenpack. For those of you who are old enough feel free to submit yours.

Vote for your favourite monitoring tool - Hopefully it’s Zenoss, if not it’s Matt’s fault ;)

Matt Ray Co-hosts the IT Management Guys Podcast - Matt helped co-host the IT management Podcast last week despite having a cold he did a good job.

Tech Teapot: Open Source Management Comparison - Jack is doing a comparison of open source management solutions.

Zenoss: a great system monitoring program which tries to do everything right - Free Sooftware Magazine published an eBook on Zenoss this week, good feedback from a hobbyist user.

]]> http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/21/zenoss-in-the-blogosphere/feed/ Zenoss Development on IRC Tuesday, July 22 http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/18/zenoss-development-on-irc-tuesday-july-22/ http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/07/18/zenoss-development-on-irc-tuesday-july-22/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:06:41 +0000 Matt Ray http://blog.zenoss.com/?p=359 Zenoss developers will be available for questions on Tuesday, July 22 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!

Don’t forget you can search for answers to common questions by visiting the Zenoss forums.

UPDATE:
Here’s Tuesday’s IRC log
other logs are available here:
http://www.zenoss.com/community/discuss/irc

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