Layer 2 deps would be great.

Layer 2 dependancies & network maps based on CDP & LLDP or at least manual

Reporting and Data exporting

I need a way to easily get at the performance and availability data on a daily basis so we can write custom reports in house. Zenoss does not need to have more than a few weeks of data stored if we can get it exported.

"They" use Excel and MS SQL server for capacity planning so the natural fit here is to feed them the raw data from Zenoss.

Thanks the tool..... still in a long term evaluation here.

I'd like to see process monitoring really work. There are numerous posts where folk have processes being monitored where Zenoss insists that the process is down when it is up and vice versa. There is a theory that you need to lock processes or they disappear if they happen to be down on a remodel. There is some suggestion that the PID is checked as well as the process name (so if a process has restarted, it has a different PID and doesn't get detected). I have seen all these but never consistently.

Please overhaul the process monitoring code and update the documentation.

Cheers,
Jane

Better distributed management:

* Handle network outage for distributed zenhub and monitor:

- whenever the link to the main mysql database is lost, all events are lost and the distributed zenoss processes need to be restarted.

- whenever the link to the main ZEO server is lost, the distributed zenhub stop and need to be restarted.

* Distribute as much databases as posible
- Distribute the mysql database (multiple mysql servers)
- Distribute the ZOPE database (multiple zope servers)

Native support for VMware ESX Host monitoring , CPU, Memory, Disk I/O , Network.
Native support for VMware ESX Guest monitoring, CPU, Memory, Disk I/O , Network.

VMware ESX Host configuration change alerting.


Working performance monitoring for devices, with CPU, Memory, Disk I/O , Network on all servers, unix, windows, as well as Network Devices, ( Cisco as example )


Native support for storage array's like EMC clarrion or NetApp FAS monitoring , CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, Disk latency, FC , CIFS, iSCSI stats, , Network.



Native HP SIM Agent support.

Secure E-mail Appliance monitoring and stat reporting ( example , ironport or zixmail )


Active Directory user authentication for logins.

Unique devices, by IP / MAC Address, to allow devices with the same hostname, ( different networks )

Network Printer support, toner levels, error reporting, alert monitoring, perf monitoring.


The ability to trend the above perfmon, and export to PDF, or send via e-mail in PDF at times / dates.

The ability to create a custom report page from separate hosts into one multiple graph that could be linked into a centranet page. ( example sharepoint ) ( use example, showing ESX host, and Storage array CPU and Memory, Disk and Network, usage on intranet site, on a TV on the wall )


Roger Lund.

Nick,


This would work great if I only had a few users or ones that would be willing to set this up, However I have a boatload of users and setting this up for them would cost much more time then I am able to spend on that aspect.