Zenoss 2.4 Released Today With New Network Monitoring Features

Open source network management system Zenoss has released Zenoss version 2.4. It sports a number of new features, refreshed documentation, and more than 400 bugfixes to improve overall stability. In addition to the system's core monitoring capabilities, the Zenoss community has created over 70 plugins called ZenPacks that provide additional functionality, statistics, and data.

According to the Zenoss blog, new features include:

Set-Up Wizard - Zenoss Core now includes a guided setup to create users and to easily add devices to be monitored. The easy-to-use setup will prompt Zenoss users for authentication credentials for Windows and Linux/UNIX servers as well as community strings for SNMP devices.

SSH Monitoring Capabilities - Zenoss users can now securely access Linux and Unix servers via secure shell to pull performance metrics and develop extensions for deep reporting capabilities of server performance.

Improved Reporting - Zenoss now provides the ability to normalize data into common units. Users can now add aliases to data points and convert performance metrics to measures that are consistent across all devices.

Extended Monitoring Guide - A new extended monitoring guide provides detailed information on how to gather metrics and outlines best practices for managing IT infrastructure with Zenoss Core.

NetworkView 3.6 is a compact network discovery and management tool for the Win32 platforms : in a few minutes, NetworkView 3.6 will discover all TCP/IP nodes and draw a full graphical map (including routes) using DNS, MAC Addresses, SNMP, NetBIOS, WMI and TCP Ports information. It can also poll the network and send an email when nodes are unreachable. With more than 28000 entries in its SNMP and MAC addresses databases, NetworkView 3.6 can be used from a FLOPPY DISK ! Full print and print preview capabilities for maps and lists.

Main Features of the NetworkView 3.6

Discover TCP/IP nodes and routes using DNS, SNMP, Ports, NetBIOS and WMI

Get MAC addresses and NIC Manufacturer Names

Monitor nodes and receive Alerts

Document with printed Maps and Reports.

Control and Secure your network with the SNMP MIB Browser, the WMI browser and the Port Scanner.