New Guide to Help Administrator Monitor IT Assets with Zenoss Core

Proactively monitoring the servers, routers, computers, websites, and devices that connect companies to customers is of paramount importance. Realizing this, Packt has announced the arrival of a new book, “The Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring Book”, written by Michael Badger.

This book shows how to work with Zenoss and effectively adapt Zenoss for System and Network monitoring. Zenoss Core is an open source application, server and network management platform based on the Zope application server.

Released under the GNU General Public License version 2, Zenoss Core provides a web interface that enables system administrators to monitor their IT assets with Zenoss Core. It is also aimed at prospects   who plan to use Zenoss Core in the future.

The book claims to be an effective guide that starts by covering installation and configuration, before moving on to administration and dashboard usage. The instructions are given in a simple and easy-to-follow manner to enable administrators to set up and use a working, capable Zenoss system.

Readers can also learn how to customize monitoring templates using SNMP, Nagios, and Cacti (News - Alert) data sources and can learn to write effective event transformations and custom device reports using Zenoss Core's data model.

One big advantage is that the guide published by Packt starts right with the Zenoss basics; hence it requires no pre-existing knowledge of systems management.