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Zenoss Extended Monitoring

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Part Number: 07-072010-3.0-v02 Table of Contents

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1. ZenPacks 1. About ZenPacks 1.1. Provided ZenPacks 2. Installing ZenPacks 2.1. Installing from the Command Line 2.2. Installing from the User Interface 2.3. Installing All Core ZenPacks from RPM 2.4. Viewing Loaded ZenPacks 3. Creating ZenPacks 3.1. Why Create a ZenPack? 3.2. Create a ZenPack 3.3. Add a Database Object to a ZenPack 3.4. View Database Objects in a ZenPack 3.5. Remove a Database Object from a ZenPack 3.6. Adding Other Items to ZenPacks 4. Packaging and Distributing ZenPacks 5. Removing ZenPacks 6. Where to Find More Information I. Core ZenPacks 2. Amazon Web Services 1. About 2. Prerequisites 3. Setup 4. Working with the EC2Manager Account 4.1. CloudWatch Data 4.2. Templates and Collection 4.2.1. Example: Initiating Load-Based Elasticity for an EC2 Setup 3. Apache Web Server 1. About 2. Prerequisites 3. Enable Monitoring 3.1. Display the Status Page in Apache Version 1.3 or Higher 3.2. Display the Status Page in Apache Version 2.x 3.3. Verifying Your Apache Configuration 3.4. Configure Zenoss to Monitor the Web Server 4. Daemons 4. Dell Hardware 1. About 2. Prerequisites 3. Enable Enhanced Modeling 4. Daemons 5. Domain Name System (DNS) 1. About Generated by Jive SBS on 2011-03-05-07:00 2. Prerequisites 3. Enable Monitoring 4. Daemons

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1.1. Loaded ZenPacks 1.2. Add to ZenPack 1.3. Export ZenPack 2.1. Access Credentials 10.1. JMX Heap Graph 10.2. Memory MBean 10.3. Memory MBean Expanded 10.4. Operations Tab 19.1. Advanced Search (User Information Area) 19.2. Search Results 19.3. All Search Results 23.1. BIG-IP Configuration Properties Selections 27.1. Add Cisco UCS Unit 28.1. Custom View 28.2. Rack View 28.3. Change Background 28.4. Setting Rack Slot Value 30.1. Install Remote Collector (Root Password) 30.2. Install Remote Collector (Root SSH Keys) 30.3. Install Remote Collector (Zenoss SSH Keys) 30.4. Install Remote Collector (Zenoss SSH Keys) 30.5. Install Remote Hub (Root Password) 30.6. Install Remote Hub (Root SSH Keys) 30.7. Install Remote Hub (Zenoss SSH Keys) 31.1. Dynamic Service View: Locations Graph 31.2. Dynamic Service View: Inspector Panel 31.3. Dynamic View: View Controls 40.1. Add RAM CAche 40.2. acl_users Breadcrumbs 40.3. Authentication Plugins 47.1. Example IP Realm 62.1. VMware Events (Event Console) 62.2. Event Details 62.3. Add VMware Infrastructure Dialog 62.4. VMware Device Classes 62.5. Virtual Guest Devices 62.6. Virtual Guest Devices - Managed Device 62.7. Add Data Source 62.8. Push Changes 65.1. Windows XP Disable Simple File Sharing 65.2. Component Services COM Security Settings 65.3. WMI Control Properties 65.4. regedit and the winreg Key

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2.1. Prerequisites 2.2. Primary Object Type Templates 3.1. Apache Prerequisites 3.2. Daemons 4.1. Dell Hardware Prerequisites 4.2. Daemons 5.1. DNS (DigMonitor) Prerequisites 5.2. DigMonitor Data Source Options 5.3. Daemons 6.1. FTP Prerequisites 6.2. FTPMonitor Basic Data Source Options 6.3. FTPMonitor Secure Data Source Options 6.4. FTPMonitor Tunables Data Source Options 6.5. Daemons 7.1. HP PC Hardware Prerequisites 7.2. Daemons 8.1. IRC Prerequisites 8.2. IRC Basic Data Source Options 8.3. Daemons 9.1. Jabber Prerequisites 9.2. Jabber Data Source Options 9.3. Daemons 10.1. J2EE Prerequisites 10.2. Memory Head Example ZenJMX Data Source Options 10.3. Daemons 11.1. LDAP Monitoring Prerequisites 11.2. LDAPServer Configuration Properties 11.3. LDAPServer Basic Data Source Options 11.4. Daemons 12.1. MySQL Prerequisites 12.2. Daemons 13.1. NNTP Prerequisites 13.2. Daemons 14.1. NTP Prerequisites 14.2. Daemons 15.1. ONC RPC Prerequisites 15.2. Daemons 16.1. Linux SSH Monitoring Example Prerequisites 16.2. Linux Configuration Properties 16.3. Adding Linux Device Details 16.4. zensql.py Database Types 16.5. Daemons 17.1. HTTP Prerequisites 17.2. HTTPMonitor Content Checking Data Source Options 17.3. HTTPMonitor Content Checking Data Source Options 17.4. HTTPMonitor Tunables Data Source Options 17.5. Daemons 18.1. Xen Virtual Hosts Prerequisites 18.2. Daemons Generated by Jive SBS on 2011-03-05-07:00 19.1. Prerequisites 20.1. AIX Prerequisites

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Next Chapter 1. ZenPacks

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