We are proud to announce the release of Zenoss 2.4. The latest Zenoss version was developed in conjunction with our community of more than 40,000 members who provided product input, monitoring extensions, patches and beta testing.

Zenoss 2.4

Zenoss 2.4 includes the following new features:

• Set-Up Wizard – Zenoss Core now includes a guided setup to create users and to easily add devices to be monitored. The easy-to-use setup will prompt Zenoss users for authentication credentials for Windows and Linux/UNIX servers as well as community strings for SNMP devices.
• SSH Monitoring Capabilities – Zenoss users can now securely access Linux and Unix servers via secure shell to pull performance metrics and develop extensions for deep reporting capabilities of server performance.
• Improved Reporting – Zenoss now provides the ability to normalize data into common units. Users can now add aliases to data points and convert performance metrics to measures that are consistent across all devices.
• Extended Monitoring Guide – A new extended monitoring guide provides detailed information on how to gather metrics and outlines best practices for managing IT infrastructure with Zenoss Core.

In addition to the new features, the documentation has all been refreshed and substantially updated.  For this release, there were over 400 external tickets closed, greatly improving the overall stability and reliability of Zenoss Core. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank and highlight the 70+ community-contributed ZenPacks that are currently available.

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the Zenoss 2.4 “Blue Crab” beta program as well!

Release Notes for Zenoss 2.4.0

Downloads and evaluations are available at Zenoss Download.