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Tutorials

The following tutorials provide step-by-step instructions on using zenpacklib to extend Zenoss is common ways.

  • Monitoring an SNMP Device

    This tutorial starts with the very basics of creating a ZenPack through Zenoss’ web interface and adding configuration to it. Then it progresses to extending the model, creating a modeler plugin, monitoring components, and then to event management with SNMP traps as an example.

    This is most likely the first tutorial you should do.

  • Monitoring an HTTP API

    In this tutorial the basics are skipped and we jump right into extending the model, modeling a custom HTTP API, and monitoring the same API using the zenpython daemon provided by the PythonCollector ZenPack.

    This is a more advanced tutorial that contains more advanced Python code.

Prerequisites

To follow the steps in these tutorials you will need to have access to the following:

  • A Linux server with Zenoss installed on it. This should not be a Zenoss server you care about. We will break things.
  • An SSH client to connect to your Zenoss server. PuTTY works well for Windows, ssh from the command line works well for macOS and Linux.
  • These tutorials.

You may need experience in the following areas to more easily follow these tutorials.

  • Zenoss: Familiarity administration and configuration.
  • Linux: Ability to move around the file system, manage files and run commands.
  • Programming: Any type of programming or scripting experience will help.