Generally Zenoss uses SNMP out of the box, so your Zenoss config will be a lot simpler. Also, I don't actually know how you'd monitor, say, CPU use on Windows without SNMP with Zenoss. On Linux, there is a zenpack for 2.4.x to use SSH rather than SNMP, but this functionality is *extremely* new, and I wouldn't count on it working for all platforms like SNMP currently does. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
pearsch1 wrote, On 6/5/2009 9:53 AM: > Could someone explain to me what the benefits are, if any, of using SNMP to > monitor hosts rather than WMI/SSH? > > I am beginning to experiment with Zenoss, and I have most of my hosts as > being accessible via WMI/SSH, but would have to go through a lot of trouble > to get SNMP configured on all of them. Is there any reason I should need it? > > Also, is there a way for Zenoss to monitor Linux service availability out of > the box without going to Nagios plugins? By service monitoring, I don't mean > IP services. I mean like checking the services running within the OS (crond > for example). > > Thanks > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=35658#35658 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
