Dig Monitor

ZenPacks.zenoss.DigMonitor

The Dig Monitor ZenPack monitors the response time of DNS lookups.

To collect data, this ZenPack uses the check_dig Nagios plugin, which in turn uses the dig command.

Open Source

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Support

This ZenPack is part of Zenoss Core. Open Source users receive community support for this ZenPack via our online forums. Enterprise support for this ZenPack is provided to Zenoss customers with an active subscription.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite	Restriction
Product	Zenoss platform 4.x, Zenoss 2.2 or higher
Required ZenPacks	ZenPacks.zenoss.DigMonitor

Enable Monitoring

To enable monitoring by the system:

1. Select Infrastructure from the navigation bar.
2. Click the device name in the device list. The device overview page appears.
3. Expand Monitoring Templates in the left panel, and then select Device.
4. Select Bind Templates from the Action menu. The Bind Templates dialog appears.
5. Add the DigMonitor template to the list of selected templates, and then click OK. The DigMonitor template appears under Monitoring Templates.

6. Select the DigMonitor template in the left panel, and change options as needed.

   DigMonitor Data Source Options

   Option	Description
   DNS Server	Name server against which the dig command should be run. The default is the device host name.
   Port	Port on which the name server is listening. This is normally port 53.
   Record Name	Name of the record you want to look up. The default is zenoss.com.
   Record Type	DNS record type (for example, A, MX, CNAME).

Daemons

Type	Name
Performance Collector	zencommand