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Matt Ray

The Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest has ended and the winners have been selected. The breadth and depth of entries was outstanding, here is the list of finalists. After consulting with our judges, these are the winners:

 

Grand Prize Winner

  • libvirt Virtualization - David Nicklay - The libvirt Virtualization ZenPack was selected as the Grand Prize for greatly expanding the number of virtualized technologies monitored by Zenoss. The ZenPack has been tested with KVM, QEMU and VMware and should work with Xen, OpenVZ, Virtual Box, Open Nebula and other virtualization technologies. By utilizing the common interface libvirt provides to virtualization technologies, there is now a baseline for a wide variety of virtualization technologies for all Zenoss users. Development and testing are ongoing and the ZenPack will continue to improve.

 

Runners-Up

  • AMQP Event Monitor - David Nalley - AMQP is an open standard application layer protocol for message oriented middleware, frequently used in enterprise business and cloud environments.
  • Ganglia - Jeff Schroeder - Monitors the open source Ganglia cluster/HPC monitoring system.
  • Google AppEngine - Colin Hudler - Comprehensive ZenPack for collecting metrics on Google App Engine applications.
  • Puppet - David Nicklay - Monitors the status of the Puppet master daemon, tracking and reporting on the status of clients and inserting new devices into Zenoss for monitoring.

 

For a complete list of all the Community ZenPacks that are available, please visit: http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/

For Community ZenPack development and further information, please visit the Community ZenPack Repository

 

Thanks again to everyone who contributed their ZenPacks to the Zenoss Community!

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Matt Ray

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We've finally processed all the entries in the Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest.  The entries were very diverse and each provides a very useful solution.  Here is a quick rundown of all the ZenPacks entered into the contest, we will announce the winners later this week:

 

 

 

For a complete list of all the Community ZenPacks that are available,  please visit:  http://www.zenoss.com/community/projects/zenpacks/  For  Community ZenPack development and further information, please visit the   Community ZenPack  Repository

 

Thanks  again to everyone who contributed their ZenPacks to the Zenoss  Community

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Brian Proffitt

You have to be careful when writing headlines. The wrong title for an article can bring a slew of readers into your site expecting one thing and getting another, and--worse--spoiling for a fight.

 

That was my initial reaction when I saw the headline "Linux Management and Monitoring Lacking" over on LinuxPlanet a while back. Excuse me?

 

Turns out the headline missed a critical word or two on the end, such as "Convergence." I know that because the Charlie Schluting piece was a re-post of the original article over on Enterprise Networking Planet, entitled "Time to Converge Monitoring and Management in Linux and Unix." Much less nerve-jangly.

 

In the ENP piece, Schluting argues that there's a disconnect between IT monitoring tools, such as Zenoss or Nagios, and configuration management apps like Puppet and Chef. He acknowledges that there's some "loose coupling" between these tools now, but there needs to be more.

 

I would suggest Schluting take a gander at ControlTier, a "cross-platform build and deployment automation framework" which will eventually enable users to automate the functionality between these services and more.

 

 

 

Open Sourcing Data Center Innovation: Another innovative direction for the data center can be found in the launch of the Open Data Center Initiative. The news actually came out in a Statement of Support on the first of the month, stealthily covered by the industry's

Green Data Center Blog. Fortunately, Michael Manos, Sr. VP of Digital Realty Trust, decoded the news in his LooseBolts blog later last week.

 

In a nutshell, the new project will apply open source collaborative methods to data-center design, both in software and hardware. I, for one, will be very interested to see what comes out of this project.

 

 

 

O'Reilly Gets Its Online Irish On: Those of you interested in web operations as a broader concept, take note: O'Reilly's free

Velocity Online Conference is kicking off in just over a week. The online event will take place from noon-2:15 p.m. EST (1700-1915 GMT) on March 17. Registration is free, and you won't even have to wear green.

 

 

 

Zenoss Core Moves Forward: As you may have read elsewhere, Zenoss announced the release of Zenoss Core 2.5.2, which will include "monitoring capabilities for the Xen Hypervisor via the Zenoss Xen monitoring plug-in, or Xen Virtual Hosts ZenPack." If you have any interest in virtual management, check out the new GPL release today.

 

Another new contribution to Zenoss was announced last week by Allen Sanabria, who's put together a script to automatically add multiple datapoints to Zenoss all at once, instead of one at a time. Sanabria claims the script for the Zenoss API is not finished yet, but Zenoss users may find it useful now.

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Mark Hinkle

I am very pleased to announce that Zenoss will be sponsoring the first OpsCamp for cloud and operations professionals to be held in Austin, TX on January 30th. We are very pleased to have the opportunity to co-sponsor the event with our friends at Reductive Labs who sponor Puppet (open source configuration management) and Bitnami (whose corporate sponsor Bitrock, helps us produce the Zenoss stack installers).

 

OpsCamp is an event aimed at bringing together IT professionals who are interested in the evolution of systems management and application deployment as it bridges physical and virtual infrastructure and especially cloud computing technologies. The event will be a participant driven unconference style event made popular by events like BarCamp, Bloggercon and Mashup Camp.

 

Event Details

 

The event will be held in an unconference format starting with an Unpanel discussion about cloud computing followed by a self-organizing conference format where topics are proposed and then voted on by the attendees.

 

Saturday, January 30, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm


Spider House Cafe

2908 Fruth St.

Austin, TX 78705

 

While attendance is free, RSVP is required: http://www.opscamp.org/austin

 

What People are Saying

 

Dave Nielsen, co-Founder CloudCamp

 

"With rapid change occurring in IT operations, we realized that a place is needed where operations personnel and sysadmins can meet to share their experiences, challenges and solutions. OpsCamp is organized as an unconference which encourages the open exchange of ideas around next generation technologies and strategies for IT Operations. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate."

 

John M. Willis, Author of Cloud Computing and Systems Management Blog, co-host IT Management Podcast and the Cloud Cafe

 

"While the cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; it has not decreased the complexity of managing complex applications and data center operations.  OpsCamp is about exploring the opportunity to intersect ideas like agile development, continuous deployment, and data center operations to promote the rise of a new movement that breaks down the traditional walls between development and operations (i.e., DevOps)."

 

Michael Coté, Analyst at Redmonk, co-host IT Management Podcast

 

"After many years of steady pace in the IT world, the tools and technologies used to do the daily work of operations are rapidly changing. Thanks to virtualization and cloud computing moving mainstream, new, hopefully better ways to deliver IT are emerging. These things aren't always fully baked yet, but the thought-leaders and early adopters are quickly crystallizing. OpsCamp is an exciting chance to get involved in these conversations whether you want to start directing this shift in operations, figure out if it works for you, or just check it out. And, not only is it free, it's in a damn fine spot: Austin."


Luke Kanies, Founder of Puppet and Reductive Labs

 

"OpsCamp is a great opportunity to share expertise and experience in managing operations in the cloud.  The unconference setting provides a perfect mix between learning and sharing, and the intimate setting guarantees everyone gets something out of it."


Erica Brescia, CEO, BitRock and Bitnami Project Lead

 

"In rapidly evolving disciplines such as how to deploy and manage software in the cloud, the one-way dialogue found at typical conferences just doesn't cut it. OpsCamp will give early adopters and innovators the opportunity to share best practices and guide the development of the next generation of cloud operations tools and services."

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Matt Ray

As enterprise infrastructure continues to evolve and move into more virtual and non-local environments, Zenoss wants to help our users expand their monitoring of their networks, devices and the services that they depend on.  We've decided to help kickstart the creation of new ZenPacks for monitoring this evolving landscape with another Community ZenPack Contest, the "Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest" with not 1, but 5 great prizes!

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What's  this ZenPack Contest About?

We're looking for users to develop ZenPacks that monitor cloud infrastructure and service providers, the tools for deploying and the technologies used there.  Here are a few suggested examples:

 

Infrastructure and Service Providers:

Deployment and Cloud-based Technologies:

 

We’re looking for as many useful submissions as possible, monitoring something not yet covered, improvements to existing ZenPacks or extending Zenoss to provide new functionality.  It doesn’t have to be overly complex, but don’t let that stop you from going wild. There are a lot of ZenPacks that are being tested or have yet to been submitted to Zenoss for hosting, so this contest is your chance to show off your chops and possibly win a great prize.  To help foster the discussion we've created a new Zenoss-Cloud forum.

 

Developer Resources

These resources should help anyone looking to develop a ZenPack.  Feel free to contact community@zenoss.com with any questions you may have.

 

The Prizes

To encourage  slightly more ambitious entries, we're raising the stakes a bit with some monetary bounties.

  • The Grand Prize is $2000  for the best ZenPacks
  • There will be 4 runner-up prizes of $500, 3 will be selected by the judges, 1 will be chosen randomly.

 

The Rules

  • Winners will be selected by a panel of Zenoss judges from the Zenoss open source community.
  • Contributed ZenPacks should be Zenoss 2.2-style .eggs. So that we would be able to potentially include the ZenPack in a future release of Zenoss, please consider filling out our contribution form. If you’ve previously filled it out, you do not need to do so again.
  • To enter the contest send an email to community@zenoss.com with the title “Cloud ZenPack Contest” with your name, the attached ZenPack and any documentation you would like to include.
  • Submissions for the Zenoss Submit a ZenPack Contest are open until February at which time our judges will select a grand-prize winner, 3 runner-ups and and draw randomly from all entries for the final prize.  Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged. You will get one entry for each ZenPack submitted.
  • Prize winners are responsible for any tax implications of their prizes and may be asked to furnish a U.S. IRS W-9 for tax purposes.

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shuckins

New Zenoss Module for Puppet

Posted by shuckins Jan 14, 2009

Puppet

 

We’re happy to announce that Zenoss Community member Juerg Gerber has written a new Puppet module that automatically adds servers managed by Puppet into Zenoss. For those unfamiliar with Puppet, it is a system for automating system administration tasks. This project just got started, but it’s already functional and open source, so feel free to help further development. The new module can be found here:

 

http://github.com/mamba/puppet-zenoss

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