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Email Event Acknowledgment – Zenoss Tip Of The Month

Scott — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:05:56 +0000

Zenoss has recognized my write-up on email based event acknowledgment as their November 2009 Tip of the Month! Many thanks to Zenoss’ Community Manager, Matt Ray, for the tip of the hat! Also, big thanks to Zenoss community member Rodrique Heron. He put in a lot of effort to test it out and give feedback for enhancements and bug fixes.

Zenoss Email Based Event Acknowledgment Updated

Scott — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:38:40 +0000

Quick update… I developed this script on an earlier version of Zenoss Core. I’ve made some small tweaks so it’s compatible with the latest release of Zenoss Core (tested on 2.4.5 & 2.5.0). I’ve also removed a section that had a Zenoss patch that is no longer necessary.

Thanks to some feedback from Rodrique Heron, I’ve also updated this to handle base64 encoded and multipart emails properly. He was trying to use this from a Blackberry device, but it wasn’t working properly due to the base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding. It was also failing on multipart email messages from his outlook client.

Give it a spin!

More To Come…

Scott — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:17:58 +0000

It’s been quite a while since I posted anything. I was in limbo for a while personally (planning a wedding) and professionally. After three months of unemployment, I landed a contract as a tools developer for an energy technology company, Silver Spring Networks. We provide a full end-to-end Smart Grid solution for power utilities. I’ve since been hired full-time and I’m back into the swing of things. We’re looking to migrate our Nagios monitoring over to Zenoss. With that said, stay tuned for more articles on Zenoss. We’re hoping to do some really cool things like leveraging the Zenoss CMDB, via the ZODB, to do command dispatch automation with ControlTier.

Zenoss – Email Event Acknowledgment

Scott — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:54:39 +0000

About a month ago, I wrote a detailed how-to on implementing email based event acknowledgment, in Zenoss. This feature is sorely missing from a lot of “Enterprise Grade” network monitoring systems. I decided to extend Zenoss and write my own. Have a look at my detailed how-to.

Zenoss – Script to Update Min/Max Thresholds via SNMP

Scott — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:14:25 +0000

There was a recent post on the Zenoss Users forum about updating Min/Max thresholds via SNMP. A user wanted to update a temperature threshold from a value obtained via SNMP. What’s the point in making the change in two spots, when you can just update it on your device and have Zenoss automatically catch the update and configure the threshold accordingly? Have a look at this page to download and configure a script to do just that.

Zenoss Tip – Convert MyISAM tables to InnoDB

Scott — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:23:37 +0000

I’ve written a how-to on the Zenoss Community Site for converting MyISAM tables to InnoDB, in MySQL. When I initially installed Zenoss, my MySQL installation did not support the InnoDB engine. This guide shows you what you need to do to convert. Check it out, here.

My LDAP Caching Writeup Made The Zenoss Tip Of The Month!

Scott — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:05:49 +0000

I’ve been implementing Zenoss at my company for about six months now. It has been a very successful project for the business and myself. I’ve learned a ton about the product, especially with regards to Python. I was a Perl guy, but now I’ve been reformed! I’ve also had the chance to become part of a great community of Zenoss users and contribute to an amazing product.

Check out the tip of the month and also have a look at my writeup on the subject.

Zenoss Book Review – Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring

Scott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:20:42 +0000

Check out my review on the new book, Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring, by Michael Badger (Packt Publishing).