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.