DNS Monitor

ZenPacks.zenoss.DnsMonitor

The ZenPacks.zenoss.DnsMonitor ZenPack monitors the response time of DNS requests.

Open Source

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Releases

Version 3.0.1 - Download

• Released on 2018/05/03
• Requires PythonCollector ZenPack
• Compatible with Zenoss 6.x and Zenoss Cloud

Version 3.0.0 - Download

• Released on 2017/12/06
• Requires PythonCollector ZenPack
• Compatible with Zenoss 6.x and Zenoss Cloud

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 DNSMonitor template to the list of selected templates, and then click OK. The DNSMonitor template appears under Monitoring Templates.

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

   DNSMonitor Data Source Options

   Option	Description
   DNS Server	Name server used to resolve lookups. If empty (the default), the default DNS server or servers in /etc/resolve.conf are used.
   Host Name	Host name to resolve. The default is the device ID or (if set) the device name (${dev/titleOrId}).
   Expected IP Address	IP address to which the host name is expected to resolve.

Daemons

Type	Name
Performance Collector	zenpython

Changes

3.0.1

• Fixed Default DNSMonitor template uses ${dev/id} rather than ${dev/manageIP} for the DNS Server field (ZEN-29750)
• Fixed DNS server connection refusal triggers a python error, no event generated (ZEN-29751)

3.0.0

• Rewrote ZenPack to use twisted.names Python library instead of Nagios check_dns plugin