Zenoss VMwareESX Zenpack

Popular open source enterprise monitoring application Zenoss has a package for monitoring VMware ESX servers. Although I have never used Zenoss personally, I have run across several customers over the years who do. Check out Zenoss.com for more info about the application and the Zenpack package for monitoring ESX hosts.

A preconfigured Zenoss installation is available to download as a virtual appliance from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

Here’s some more info from the web site:

What is Zenoss?

Zenoss provides a complete suite of software and services to help you succeed in monitoring your IT infrastructure. Our software provides a single,
integrated solution for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure - network, servers, applications, across the full lifecycle - inventory, configuration, availability, performance, events.

What is a ZenPack?

A ZenPack is a package that adds new functionality to Zenoss Core and Enterprise. ZenPacks may add any or all of the following:

Action Rules	Event Classes	Event Commands
User Commands	Service Classes	Data Sources
Graphs	Perf Templates	Reports
Model Extensions	Product Definitions

A ZenPack may also add new daemons and new UI features.

Here’s the direct link to the ESX Zenpack - Zenoss - ZenPack - VMwareESX - Open Source Application, Server, and Network Management

Tags: esx, monitoring, opensource, SAN, vmware

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