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.
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 [...]
Our Network Engineers at work have been trying to troubleshoot a site-tosite VPN connectivity issue with a remote office for a few weeks. They need to figure out whether or not the connection issues are on our provider’s side or not. As a result, I’d configured our Smokeping installation to monitor the firewall and switch [...]
