New Zenoss Core Book Available

Michael Badger recently wrote Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System 
Monitoring, a step-by-step guide to configuring, using, and adapting 
Zenoss Core 3.0 to your monitoring environment. The book, published by 
Packt Publishing, builds upon and updates an earlier Zenoss Core book.

Zenoss Core is an open source IT monitoring platform that makes it easy 
for businesses to proactively monitor their networks, computer systems, 
and web sites. Zenoss Core 3.x Network and System Monitoring shows 
readers the monitoring basics: adding devices, monitoring for 
availability and performance, processing events, and reviewing reports.

The book dives into more advanced customizations, such as custom device 
reports, external event handling (for example, syslog server, 
zensendevent, and Windows Event Logs), and custom monitoring templates 
using SNMP, Nagios, and Cacti data sources.

Zenoss Core supports both Nagios and Cacti plugins. In the book, Badger 
includes an example of a Nagios-style plugin and shows readers where to 
get a Cacti-compatible plugin. Using the Nagios plugin example, readers 
will learn how to create, package, and distribute a ZenPack. In Zenoss 
Core, ZenPacks are modules that add monitoring functionality.

Badger shows readers how to explore and find objects in Zenoss Core's 
data model using zendmd, an interactive Python shell. Using the zendmd 
shell helps administrators effectively write event transformations and 
custom device reports.

Michael Badger is technical communications professional and a Packt 
Publishing author of three computer books. Zenoss Core 3.x Network and 
Systems Monitoring is his second Zenoss Core book. He also published 
Scratch 1.4 Beginner's Guide. See www.badgerfiles.com for more information.

Contact:
Michael Badger
mcbadger@gmail.com

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