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Subject: 4.2.5 Addional Monitor
Author: [Not Specified]
Posted: 2018-11-28 11:43

​​Hi ALL

Before everyone rushes off to upgrade to 6.2 can someone help with an issue on 4.2.5 :)

I have some devices which can be slow to respond to ping and wish to change timeout/cycle time for these devices only. I went ahead and added a new monitor under the Collectors section and moved the devices over, however it appears that these devices are now not reporting downtime when offline.
Is there another step I am missing - does the monitor name I assign need to match a real hostname? . If adding a  monitor is not an option to allocate alternative ping timeouts/cycle timeouts etc to certain devices, can someone recommend an alternative?


Thanks



Subject: RE: 4.2.5 Addional Monitor
Author: Jane Curry
Posted: 2018-11-29 14:49

Firstly - we are not all running away to Zenoss 6 :)  Some of us think Zenoss 4 is great :)

Secondly, the Collectors menu is for managing other Zenoss management systems that are sharing the data collection role - I suspect this isn't what you want?  Do you actually have 2 Zenoss servers?  And with Core, you probably also need the community DistributedCollector ZenPack, or with the commercial version of Zenoss 4 there is a commercial version of the ZenPack - see    https://www.zenoss.com/product/zenpacks/distributed-collector for the commercial version (interestingly, the link to Egor's community version seems to have disappeared :( - but I have a copy of it).  I appreciate that you can apparently create a new Monitor under the Collectors menu, but without the extra hardware and software you are not going to achieve what you want (effectively, the devices you have moved to your new "monitor" are not actually being monitored.

Do make sure tha you move those devices back to your localhost monitor before deleting your new test one - in some versions of Zenoss 4, you could get devices into a real twist if you deleted their collector.

If it is just a few devices where you need to change the ping timeout, can you write a script to ping them at the appropriate interval and run it through a zencommand template?

Cheers,
Jane

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Jane Curry
Skills 1st United Kingdom
jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk
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