Zenoss Python Enterprise Monitoring
Duncan McGreggor
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