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Subject:	Zenoss 5 core doesn't have
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2015-10-06 18:01

Zenoss 5 core doesn't have concept of collectors (or at least no free remote collector zenpack at the moment).
Remote collectors are available only in enterprise Zenoss version. You can scale only number of "workers" (containers) in Zenoss Core, but I'm skeptic in your case (8k devices with zencommands).

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Subject:	Hi Jan,
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-10-07 06:58

Hi Jan,

Thanks so much for the reply. I really really want to move from Zenoss 3.2.1 to Zenoss 5, but I'm finding it very hard to understand how scaling/collectors etc work in Zenoss 5.

Just before you replied, I found the section in control center where I can increase the number of instances of Zenoss running.
Are these the "workers" you refer to

Can you tell me exactly how Zenoss uses these Does it just share tasks amongst them as necessary
I mean, looking at it from Control Center, there's not a lot of visibility into it. I can see that there are 2 instances running, but it's still the same number of daemons/containers etc.. ie, I can still only see one instance of zencommand running..

What exactly is it adding

Thanks,
Joan

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Subject:	Dunno, you should to dig into
Author:	Jan Garaj
Posted:	2015-10-07 07:10

Dunno, you should to dig into code - but you have some experience already http://www.zenoss.org/forum/135606

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