Greetings from Zenoss, We are pleased to announce the start of the beta-testing cycle for the next major release of Zenoss, 2.5 (aka âKing Crabâ). The beta is not ready for production and is not recommended for new users. Your participation is an invaluable part of the Zenoss software development process. It is your feedback that helps us continue developing high-quality releases. On behalf of the entire Zenoss team, we thank you for your time and efforts.
While there are over 400 tickets closed against the âKing Crabâ release so far, the most visibly apparent new feature is the new Event Console. The Event Console has been completely rewritten and integrates saved event views, filtering, details and logging in a more unified experience. There have been numerous other improvements to the underlying libraries, SSH-based monitoring, reliability and scalability and to our documentation that need testing as well. SUGGESTED NEW TEST CASES Below is an outline of suggested use cases that test the major areas of new functionality. Please attempt to run through as many of these areas as possible. The other major objective of this beta program is to ensure the product has been exposed to real customer environments. You are strongly encouraged to test and exercise any part of the product in a similar manner to your production installation. If you have access to Internet Explorer 8 and/or FireFox 3.5, please help us test our compatibility with these browsers as we add support for them. INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE 1. Please go to http://www.zenoss.com/beta/2.5/ to get started with your download. 2. Install a fresh installation of Zenoss on your platform using your preferred installation distribution. At this point we have the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS RPMs available for download, other installers will be available shortly. 3. Upgrades from earlier versions are currently broken, please do not test the Zenoss upgrade functionality. 4. The upgrade between the 2.5 beta to the 2.5 release will not be officially supported, and we will not be testing it. GENERAL USAGE 1. Monitor a set of devices that represent your current production installation. 2. Set monitoring thresholds that are representative of your current production installation. 3. Configure events in a similar manner to your production environment. 4. Browse dashboard, event console, device list, network map and reports. Verify the necessary information is presented. 5. Configure alerts in a similar manner to your production environment. Verify alerts are sent and contain the expected information. OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS 1. Did you encounter any errors that caused Zenoss to stop working? If so, please describe. 2. Did the user interface show unexpected exceptions or cryptic error pages? If so, please describe. 3. Do the new Event Console capabilities work as expected? Did you encounter any errors? If so, please describe. 4. Have you found any behavior that you believe is a regression from previous Zenoss versions? 5. Do you have any additional comments or feedback on this beta version? There is a forum for discussing issues with the beta that is called âzenoss-testingâ and available at http://forums.zenoss.com. If you are interested we can provide Trac accounts or you can use the âzenossâ account to open defects. If you have any questions about anything beta-related please post on the zenoss-testing forum. Future updates to the beta will be discussed in the zenoss-testing forum as well. Thank you again for participating in the Zenoss 2.5 Beta program. Thanks, Matt Ray Zenoss Community Manager -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=39169#39169 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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