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Hi,

So I was challenged by my leaders to find a "non-intrusive" monitoring system for a company I am working for. I immediately thought of ZenOSS as I used it in the past (V4.2) and setting up WMI monitoring for Windows Servers was a breeze using the WMI WIndowsMonitor ZenPack. Just imported a list of server and gave a privilege user account and we were good to go.

So Today I installed ZenOSS Core 6.1.0, and to my surprise the simplicity in setting up Windows Monitoring is a bit more involved. If I am correct in digesting the information found in the 45 minute video, I have to touch all the end points, which I would call intrusive.

So to meet the challenge given to me by my boss, I have to ask...

Question: Is it possible to remove the new ZenPack and load the old "ZenPacks.zenoss.WindowsMonitor-1.1.1.egg" file with out any problems?

PS: The new ZenPack will cause the need for multiple change requests as we will be touching all the machines to be monitored with a change to their config. Apposed to simply using a Domain User that always has access to the current WMI data points.

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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	Jane Curry
Posted:	2018-03-20 04:47

The "new" Windows ZenPack (WinRM) was designed to co-exist with the old WMI ZenPack. I have certainly run with both installed in the past, though not recently. Do you have a test environment with the new ZP installed, where you can try installing the old ZP to check that it still co-exists nicely?

Cheers,
Jane

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Jane Curry
Skills 1st United Kingdom
jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	Peter Dragon
Posted:	2018-03-20 07:30

Thanks for the reply, and yes I just stood up a ZenOSS 6.1.0 Core DEV deployment as this will be a new POC for this company. That is where I noticed the new ZenPack for WinRM, and then started reading the documents. Unfortunately touching all endpoints to be monitored all the way down to the registry level just wont work. We have strict policies about change and a very complicated change process. So this is good news if the old ZP still functions as expected to allow for a non-intrusive deployment.

-Cheers!

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[Peter] [Dragon] IT Engineer
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	Jane Curry
Posted:	2018-03-21 04:49

The other thing you may be able to use is SNMP monitoring - depends on what you need to do and whether you have an SNMP agent on your Win systems. Have a look at my ZenPacks.skills-1st.WinSnmp. I suggest you pull it directly from github at https://github.com/jcurry/ZenPacks.skills1st.WinSnmp . I tried to update it in the Zenoss catalog back in October and the process still appears to be thoroughly broken.

Cheers,
Jane

- @John - no update on this for 4 months! Updating ZenPack catalog

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Jane Curry
Skills 1st United Kingdom
jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	John Boyle
Posted:	2018-03-21 08:46

Hello @Jane. Process is working. We updated it with the information you provided through the request form last Fall. It is dependent on the authors providing the correct information so if you please email me the correct link(s) directly todayI will have it updated so members can access.

Cheers!

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John Boyle
Technology Partnerships & Community Manager
Zenoss
Austin TX
jboyle@zenoss.com
http://www.zenoss.com
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	Jane Curry
Posted:	2018-03-21 10:56

@John - the link is as above in this thread - an I believe what went in the form way back last autumn.
Cheers,
Jane

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Jane Curry
Skills 1st United Kingdom
jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	John Boyle
Posted:	2018-03-21 11:04

@Jane Thanks for confirming the correct link. We will update it today and I will circle back to confirm. Cheers! - JB

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John Boyle
Technology Partnerships & Community Manager
Zenoss
Austin TX
jboyle@zenoss.com
http://www.zenoss.com
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	John Boyle
Posted:	2018-03-22 10:48

@Jane

We checked your ZenPack page and the links are correct based on what you posted above and what was submitted and are working fine. Please check this link and again...email with with specific updates if you need additional changes. Forum is not the place to request these updates. Thanks! - JB

https://www.zenoss.com/product/zenpacks/zenpacksskills1stwinsnmp

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John Boyle
Technology Partnerships & Community Manager
Zenoss
Austin TX
jboyle@zenoss.com
http://www.zenoss.com
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Subject:	RE: Windows Monitoring
Author:	Jane Curry
Posted:	2018-03-22 11:04

@John,
The link you supplied seems to go to the home page of ZenPacks,, not to my ZenPack.
When I check the correct page, the download link is for the 1.0.1 version of the ZenPack, not the latest 1.0.2.

I do not know how you construct that link on your web page but the egg file can be got from https://github.com/jcurry/ZenPacks.skills1st.WinSnmp/blob/master/dist/ZenPacks.skills1st.WinSnmp-1.0.2-py2.7.egg?raw=true .

Cheers,
Jane

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Jane Curry
Skills 1st United Kingdom
jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk
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Subject:	Windows Monitoring
Author:	Peter Dragon
Posted:	2018-03-19 20:34