Michael Badger - Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring

Michael Badger is a freelance technical communicator with a knack for helping other people understand and use their computer software and technology. In addition to writing a previous book about Zenoss Core: Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring , Badger authored Scratch 1.4: Beginner's Guide , a Scratch programming tutorial.

He lives in north central Pennsylvania (United States) on a small farm and has recently taken to raising pastured chickens, honeybees, and pigs. Michael is searching for a way to integrate Zenoss Core into the hen house so that he can receive an alert each time an egg is laid.

For more information, visit www.badgerfiles.com/zenoss3.

There are so many people to thank, starting with my family. They tolerate my late nights and weekend work. My team at Packt deserves a nod for finally helping me get this revision done. Thanks for the help Rakesh Shejwal and Jovita Pinto. Then there are the reviewers. It's not easy to provide substantive critique of another person's work because it takes time and thoughtful consideration for you to want to make my work better. You should know that even though I did not incorporate all your suggestions, I considered them carefully.

Andrea Consadori is the lead technical support at Lais s.r.l. and has been working with Zenoss to monitor customer IT infrastructures for the past four years.

He has been implementing simple zenpacks to integrate all of the vendors' products he uses like Motorola Canopy/PTP, Alvarion, and so on.

Lais s.r.l. is a WISP and uses Zenoss to monitor its wireless infrastructure.

Earlier, he worked at Edslan s.p.a. (an Italian networking product distributor) where he studied lots of networking brands.

Andrea is passionate about solving hard networking issues and enjoys working with routing protocol and firewall rules.

I would like to thank Michela for her encouragement that makes my skill and knowledge grow every day.

Jonny Gerold loves Open Source, enjoys working with Linux/Unix/Solaris, and also enjoys dirt biking.

Duncan M. McGreggor started his programming career at the ripe old age of 11 in the early 80s. From his adventures in rewriting games on Kaypro's luggable CP/M machine to the open source world, programming has been his passion. When Duncan wasn't hacking, he was an Army MI linguist; worked his way up to sous chef in a Massachusetts restaurant; studied quantum mechanics and mathematics as a physics major; learned meditation while living with Tibetan monks; and started his own software consulting company. His contract work included systems management solutions for the U.S. Federal Government as well as Zenoss, Inc. After consulting for several years, Duncan joined an engineering startup as the COO and eventually left that position for Canonical where he manages teams in the Product Strategy group, improving the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Charlie Schluting , BS CS, MBA; is first a sysadmin, and second a technology strategy connoisseur, currently working as the IS Operations Manager at Canonical (the creators of Ubuntu Linux). Charlie also wrote Network Ninja, http://stores.lulu.com/schluting, a book designed to educate sysadmins and mid-level network engineers on the fundamentals of the protocols they work with. Charlie can frequently be found dabbling in various technology startups, attempting to change the world, when he's not touring off-road on his motorcycle (http://charlierides.com).

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Preface

For system administrators, network engineers, and security analysts, it is essential to keep a track of network traffic.

Zenoss Core is an enterprise-level systems and network monitoring solution that can be as complex as you need it to be. While just about anyone can install it, turn it on, and monitor "something", Zenoss Core has a complicated interface packed with features. The interface has been drastically improved over version 2, but it's still not the type of software you can use intuitivelyin other words, a bit of guidance is in order.