In early September I was contacted by PACKT Publishing. They provided me with a review copy of their new book, Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring (ISBN 978-847194-28-2) by Michael Badger. The books eleven chapters cover everything from basic installation to extending Zenoss: Introduction System Architecture Installation and Set up The Zenoss User Interface Device […]

I’ve used various network monitoring tools over the last few years, in particular Cacti, System Center Essentials and now Zenoss. Cacti is great for monitoring SNMP hosts and has some incredible graphing abilities. The problem I had with Cacti is simply that there’s no useful OS error monitoring. So, there became a requirement for either […]