Zenoss Core Network andSystem Monitoring

Michael Badger

Chapter No. 5"Device Management"

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A Biography of the author of the book A preview chapter from the book, Chapter NO.5 "Device Management"A synopsis of the book’s contentInformation on where to buy this book

About the Author

Michael Badger

is a technical writer with a BS in Technical and ProfessionalCommunication from the Pennsylvania College of Technology/Penn State. He has beenhelping users understand, troubleshoot, and use technology for the better part of 15 years.In the 1990's, he rose through the ranks at the industry leading internet service provider,MindSpring, to manage a technical support call center in Dallas, TX. He later foundhimself supporting and writing about Win4Lin, a Windows virtualization solution forLinux. Today, he prefers to fill a generalist's role with a focus on automated webapplication testing and writing—always looking to learn the next cool application ortechnology. For fun, he prefers to be outside in the wilds of Central Pennsylvania fishing,hiking, and hunting.

Zenoss Core Network andSystem Monitoring

Regardless of the size of your organization, information technology (IT) plays anincreasingly important role in day-to-day business, which implies we have incentives tomanage the servers, routers, workstations, printers, and other systems attached to ournetworks.

Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

provides a narrowly focused guide that helps users set up an environment tomanage their IT assets regardless of systems administration background or lack thereof.We use step-by-step examples with ample screen captures to demonstrate Zenoss Core'scapabilities that you can easily apply to your environment. The book keeps the emphasison using Zenoss Core through its web interface. Advanced users will be able to identifyways in which they can customize the system to do more, while less advanced users willappreciate the ease of use Zenoss provides.If you work through each chapter in sequence, you will start with installation and fi nishwith monitoring solution that can be deployed on your network. Each chapter builds onthe knowledge gained from the previous chapter. However, each chapter can stand on itsown, allowing you to pick and choose the features you want to explore.

What This Book Covers

Chapter 1—

Introduction: Provides an overview of Zenoss Core's network and systemsmanagement capabilities.

Chapter 2—

System Architecture: Discusses the underlying components and how they fittogether to form Zenoss Core.

Chapter 3—

Installation and Setup: Details step-by-step instructions for each of the threeinstallation methods—As a virtual appliance, from a binary installer, or compiled fromsource. Information on how to prepare servers to be monitored is also covered.

Chapter 4—

Zenoss Dashboard: Introduces the web interface's navigation andorganization properties. The dashboard holds the key to the rest of the book. FromChapter 4 onwards, the emphasis is on using the dashboard.

Chapter 5—

Device Management: Walks through the process of discovering andmodeling devices to build an inventory of the network. In Zenoss, everything is viewedas a device, and without devices, we have nothing to monitor.