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No Node Left Behind
Zenoss Blog: No Node Left Behind
11 Posts tagged with the core tag
As 2009 comes to a close we would like to thank everyone who has suppported Zenoss and Zenoss Core project. Here are a few of the milestones we achieved together this year:
- Two major releases of Zenoss (Blue Crab and King Crab) have added scores of news features including a Set-Up Wizard, a new Events console, SSH Monitoring, Amazon EC2 Cloud Monitoring, and numerous improvements in the Zenoss documentation.
- Over 150 new and updated Zenpacks have been contributed by Zenoss Community members for monitoring all types of IT infrastructure.
- The Zenoss Core project reached the milestone of over 1 million downloads!
- A brand new community portal that allows you to view, organize and create sub-communities and interact with other members of the Zenoss Community.
We are looking foward to an exciting new year and look forward to accomplishing a lot more with your help in 2010!
Zenoss Community Day - Los Angeles
This year we are trying to connect with as many of our users as possible and to that end we are conducting a number of local training events in conjunction with Linuxfests and other technical shows. Our first such event in 2010 takes place at the Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles on February 19th. The event will provide on day of free training to get you installed and monitoring your network wiith Zenoss Core. We recorded our last community day sessions in Baltimore so those that can't attend can still get the benefit of the training.
Tip of the Month: Dynamically Creating Maintenance Windows
This month's tip comes from Zenoss Community member Jeff Schroeder and Zenoss engineer Kells Kearney. Maintenance windows are useful for scheduled downtime periods, but there are situations where being able to dynamically schedule a maintenance window for an individual device is useful. This tip describes how to create an event that can create a short (10 minute) window with an event mapping.
Cloud Monitoring Contest
Enterprise infrastructure continues to evolve and is moving into more virtual and non-local environments. So we've decided to help kick start the creation of new ZenPacks for monitoring this evolving landscape with another Community ZenPack Contest, the "Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest" with not one, but five great prizes!
Zenoss QA Testing Days
On December 10th we ran our first Zenoss QA test day a joint effort between the Zenoss development team and the Zenoss Community to help improve the quality of Zenoss by squashing bugs. Check out the new Zenoss-Testing channel on IRC, the Zenoss-Testing Forum and the Testing Community to find out how you can help out and join in future events.
Zenoss For Cloud Computing
Learn how the Zenoss solution delivers Unlegacy IT operations management for Cloud environments. Download the white paper: Using Zenoss to Manage Cloud Services.
Thank you for your interest and support of Zenoss.
Mark R. Hinkle
Vice President, Community
Zenoss Inc. Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/mrhinkle
Just in time for this week's SC09 High Performance Computing (HPC) conference comes the announcement from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) HPC Division that they are using Zenoss to monitor their HPC large scale clusters. LANL currently has the #2 fastest supercomputer in the world, and they use a modified version of Zenoss to monitor it. They are working to share their customizations and there is a High Performance Computing Development area dedicated to the work and an HPC group for further collaboration on using Zenoss in your HPC environment.
Los Alamos National Laboratory High Performance Computing Division is currently deploying Zenoss with some modifications to monitor high performance large scale clusters. We have created several ZenPacks that help to extend Zenoss in the areas of issue tracking, asset tracking, and scalability. Attached is a file that gives a high level description of the enhancements LANL made to Zenoss for our deployment.
The basics are in place, but there are lots of opportunities for contribution. Here’s a partial list of things we think would be of great use to the HPC that we won’t get to any time soon:
• Direct feed of resource manager job allocation data
• Increased automation of event-->issue roll-up
• Performance data from the nodes
• End to end I/O subsystem view
• After-the-fact automated event/issue correlation
• Continuing filter/mapping refinement
• Better high-level reporting facilities
• Alternate visualization of data across event, performance, environmental data categories
• Appropriate and relevant monitoring data and rates for HPC Center networks.
We are currently working within our organization to authorize approval for sharing of the enhancements we have made. Our next steps will involve working to get our changes integrated with the newer versions of Zenoss. We look forward to working with others to add more functionality specific to high performance computing.
Zenoss Community Day – Open Source and Free Training
On November 6th Zenoss will be conducting our third Zenoss Community Day. The event will be held in Baltimore, MD during the USENIX 23rd Large Installation Systems Administrator Conference (LISA). Our most recent event at the Ohio Linuxfest had over 80 attendees, who now are well-trained on how to monitor their networks with Zenoss Core. By all accounts these training events are an invaluable way to learn about monitoring your infrastructure with Zenoss Core and they're free!
King Crab Beta is Rocking
We have updated the artifacts available for testing for the Zenoss 2.5 "King Crab" beta. There are now installers available for all platforms and the VMware image is now available for testing. Please refer to the original beta announcement for testing instructions, the downloads are available on the community website. Testing upgrades is supported with the stack installers, upgrading with the other installers should be addressed in the next beta release.
Tip of the Month: ZenDMD Tab Completion
This month's tip comes from Zenoss engineer Kells Kearney who recently checked in a patchset for ticket #5375 "Add tab completion to zendmd". This was checked in for the upcoming 2.5 release, but it applies cleanly to recent 2.4.5 installations. By Kells' description, this patch makes spelunking in zendmd become very easy and reduce some of the need for looking through code to determine what's possible.
Zenoss Community Partners
Do you provide support and services for Zenoss Core? Do you develop ZenPacks and want to do so for other income? The Zenoss Community partner ecosystem is comprised of Zenoss Community members who offer commercial or technical services to other members. Check out the new community partner portal today!Distance Learning
Do you want training but can't travel to one of our in-person training events? The Zenoss professional services team is providing web-based training for Zenoss Enterprise customers. Instruction will be delivered via bi-directional Webex with a live instructor. Students will have the opportunity to ask questions of the instructor, and interact with other students. Each student will be supplied with a Zenoss training instance that is hosted by Zenoss as well as lab devices to monitor.
Help Wanted: Senior Developer
Zenoss is looking to expand its development team. The Senior Developer will focus on designing and implementing new features for the Zenoss Web infrastructure as well as the Zenoss Core. As a start-up company we move quickly, and the candidate must be able to work well in a dynamic environment.
Thank you for your interest and support for Zenoss.
Mark R. Hinkle
Vice President, Community
Zenoss Inc.
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/mrhinkle
The Details
Event: Zenoss Community Day
Date: November 6, 2009
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where: Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
700 Aliceanna Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Phone: (410) 385-3000
Hotel Web site
Cost? - It's Free
There will be no cost to the attendees. Space is limited though so please sign-up so we can reserve your spot.
Why Attend?
Zenoss will be offering a free training session to help Zenoss community members install and use the award-winning open source network monitoring tool, Zenoss Core. The class will be led by Zenoss Support Engineer Nathaniel McCallum. We would like everyone to leave the event with a good understanding of how Zenoss works and to be able to successfully manage their network using Zenoss' award-winning open source tools. Zenoss will supply plenty of free stuff (t-shirts and other tchotzkes), on top of the free training. There will also be a happy hour immediately following the sesssion.
Schedule
This is the tentative schedule for the event, we will provide lunch and breaks as needed. Since the event is for your benefit we are happy to adapt to meet the needs of the attendees.
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome - Mark Hinkle, Zenoss Vice President of Community
9:15 - 12:00 - Introduction to Zenoss
- Zenoss Core Overview
- Installing Zenoss Core
- Zenoss Architecture
- Adding Devices to Zenoss
12:00 -1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 - Configuring and Using Zenoss
3:30 - 4:30 - Questions and Answers about all things Zenoss including feedback session
USENIX LISA
We would like to thank the volunteers and staff of LISA for all their support and encourage you to consider attending this excellent event on the preceding days. Zenoss will be exhibiting at LISA and providing live demos during the expo. Use the code ZENOSS09 when you register, and receive $75 off your registration fees!
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