Zenoss Python Enterprise Monitoring

[Duncan McGreggor]

Hey all,

It's been quiet on the pymon/CoyMon fronts lately, and I wanted to let
everyone know why :-)

A really cool thing happened last month: some guys I had worked with at
USi during the Internet boom contacted me and asked if I'd like to
start working with them on their monitoring project and with their
company. There are several really awesome things about this:

1) The first is that pymon and CoyMon were inspired by the massive
NetCool addons Erik Dahl created with OASIS (a USi-specific collection
of monitoring tools, plugins, etc.)
2) They write in python
3) They use Twisted
4) Zenoss is an AWESOME product
5) They are paying me to work on monitoring and systems management code

Zenoss' web management front-end is built using Zope 2, so though it
may be a bit heavy (compared to pymon's ultra-light front-end), it's
far lighter than Plone. What's more, there are discussions about
migrating to Zope 3.

I will continue working on pymon and CoyMon, because I think they are
great ideas with great architectures, and they fill needs that Zenoss
doesn't meet.

Here are some links, for those who are interested:
http://www.zenoss.com/
http://www.zenoss.org/
http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/

And eye candy :-)
http://www.zenoss.org/product/screenshots.html

I'm spending a lot of time on #zenoss (irc.freenode.net), so feel free
to stop buy and ask questions about it.

d

[Scott]

Good news. And Zenoss looks pretty good! Can you discuss what the
future of Netflow in Zenoss is going to look like?

[Duncan McGreggor]

On Jun 16, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Scott wrote:

> Good news. And Zenoss looks pretty good! Can you discuss what the
> future of Netflow in Zenoss is going to look like?

We're still discussing that, and they've expressed a great deal of
interest in CoyMon, so there may be some crossover between the
projects. For right now, I'm just a contracted coder, and I only have a
summary view of Zenoss' direction.

However, one of my first tasks was to write an additional data
collection plugin in twisted. These gave me a very good sense of the
code's history and possible future architecture developments. One of
the things that I saw while coding was the potential for adding support
for NetFlow and the relative ease with which this could be done.

Hmm. Now that you bring this up, I'll start a thread on the dev list
and see if I can get some creative juices flowing with the other
developers.

Thanks!

d