This week we are getting ready to release Zenoss Core 2.0. We are very excited about this huge milestone in the development of the Zenoss. Paula Musich of eWeek wrote a nice article about the launch.

“The open-source tool moves beyond the more cumbersome, first-generation “death by configuration file” interaction by providing a full Web-browser-based user interface, making it easier for more Windows-oriented administrators to use, Karpovich said. The UI is based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML).

“For customers scaling up their implementations to manage a larger number of devices, Zenoss has made the tool more scalable by adding new distributed data collectors. The aim is to scale to manage thousands of devices across LAN and WAN connections by distributing SNMP and Windows Management Interface event collection in strategic locations in an enterprise network. That reduces the amount of bandwidth taken up by transmitting management data and enabling that data to be sent via secured connections.”