Hello all. I've been watching zenoss for about 18 months, we've installed it, uninstalled it, etc. We've gone back and forth on using it for our monitoring exclusively, and we've finally decided to do so. I've been configuring it, reading the admin guide, etc, but I have some questions, which hopefully can be answered:
Currently we use an older version of ipmonitor (before solarwinds bought it). Basically, we set up a profile (say, Company1), set up the alerting rules (say, "michael email", which allows me to set the from and to address for that individual rule, and then the schedule for that rule). Then we set up the individual monitors, usually snmp, http, etc. With each monitor (say, a load average monitor), we specify the amount of failures before we're paged (this helps prevent network glitches from creating pages), and the amount of time in between each check). With zenoss, I'd like to do the following: 1. Set up individual snmp monitors (perhaps to check for a 1M load average being over 15). I'd also like to tell it that if it fails X times (let's say 3), then create an alert, and send a page (meaning if the 1M load average is over 15 for 3 checks, page us). Finally, I'd like to be able to specify the time in between checks (generally, 120 seconds). What is the best way to accomplish this? 2. So far, I have not found a way to specify a different from address for individual alerts or groups. For instance, we monitor multiple companies, not just our own hardware. Therefore, we require the ability to specify a from address for a particular group of servers, for example, group "CompanyA" should generate alerts from "[email protected]", which allows them to reply via email if need be. What is the best way to accomplish this? 3. It would be great to have a daily email of performance reports, such as availability reports. So far, I have not found an option to email these. For instance, it would be nice to receive a daily email report of http response times, and availability for a given website that's being monitoring. Is this doable? I'm sure I have many more questions, but those will do for now! Thanks in advance for any answers. Michael -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=31839#31839 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
