Zenoss Core 3 Book Available

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Hughesville, PA, USA – Michael Badger recently wrote Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring, a step-by-step guide to configuring, using, and adapting Zenoss Core 3.0 to your monitoring environment. The book, published by Packt Publishing, builds upon and updates an earlier Zenoss Core book.

Zenoss Core is an open source IT monitoring platform that makes it easy for businesses to proactively monitor their networks, computer systems, and web sites. Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring shows readers the monitoring basics: adding devices, monitoring for availability and performance, processing events, and reviewing reports.

The book dives into more advanced customizations, such as custom device reports, external event handling (for example, syslog server, zensendevent, and Windows Event Logs), and custom monitoring templates using SNMP, Nagios, and Cacti data sources.

Zenoss Core supports both Nagios and Cacti plugins. In the book, Badger includes an example of a Nagios-style plugin and shows readers where to get a Cacti-compatible plugin. Using the Nagios plugin example, readers will learn how to create, package, and distribute a ZenPack. In Zenoss Core, ZenPacks are modules that add monitoring functionality.

Badger shows readers how to explore and find objects in Zenoss Core’s data model using zendmd, an interactive Python shell. Using the zendmd shell helps administrators effectively write event transformations and custom device reports.

Michael Badger is technical communications professional and a Packt Publishing author of three computer books. Zenoss Core 3.x Network and Systems Monitoring is his second Zenoss Core book. He also published Scratch 1.4 Beginner’s Guide.

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In Zenoss Core, ZenPacks are modules that add monitoring functionality.