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If you are frustrated by the lack of WindowsMonitor and PySamba WMI support in Zenoss Core 5.0 then you are not alone! There is no reason for this ZenPack to be removed. In fact, the same exact plugins from 4.2.5 work great with 5.0.3. Working with serviced makes things a bit more complicated but I wrote a script to make it simple to enable WMI. You will need to have EGG files for both PySamba and WindowsMonitor. Enjoy!

# Create container session for editing Zenoss
serviced service shell -i -s WindowsMonitor zope bash
# Fix issue with missing libsasl2.so.2
ln -s /usr/lib64/libsasl2.so.3 /usr/lib64/libsasl2.so.2
cd /tmp
su zenoss
# Put the egg files somewhere and grab them with SCP
scp user@workstation:~/ZenPacks.zenoss.PySamba-1.0.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg ./
scp user@workstation:~/ZenPacks.zenoss.WindowsMonitor-1.1.1.egg ./
zenpack --install ZenPacks.zenoss.PySamba-1.0.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg
zenpack --install ZenPacks.zenoss.WindowsMonitor-1.1.1.egg
# Leave zenoss user prompt
exit
# Exit serviced container
exit
# Save container changes
serviced snapshot commit WindowsMonitor
serviced service restart Zenoss.core

Subject:	Awesome! Glad to hear it
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2015-06-01 12:35

Awesome! Glad to hear it works, two caveats:
1: it's not officially supported
2: microsoft will be dropping WMI

Andrew Kirch

akirch@gvit.com

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Subject:	While it's true WMI is no
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-06-01 15:52

While it's true WMI is no longer supported by Microsoft there will always be a need to monitor legacy systems until they are replaced.

Subject:	Are you using ZenUp?
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2015-07-17 10:51

Are you using ZenUp
http://wiki.zenoss.org/ZenUp

Subject:	WMI End of LifeCycle
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-07-21 16:43

"Awesome! Glad to hear it works, two caveats:
1: it's not officially supported
2: microsoft will be dropping WMI"

That is like saying Zenoss wont support Win 2012 becaseu MS will be dropping it.
It is STILL around and will be for years.

Subject:	You sir are a gentleman and a
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-08-14 16:05

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Kudos for saving me a ton of work.

I'll also chime in dropping support for this is kinda redic

Subject:	Does this continue to work in version 5.05?
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-09-23 16:07

We just installed version 5.05 and need to know if we can apply this work around and what if any challenges you had preserving this if or when you upgraded from 5.03

Subject:	Can't see either of those ZenPacks on the ZenPack page
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-09-30 17:37

am I stupid
http://wiki.zenoss.org/Community_ZenPacks
but I don't see either the pySamba or the WindowsMonitor Zenpack

Subject:	as long as I am at it... ZenUP
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-09-30 17:39

seems like a cool idea but don't see a version for RHEL7 and Zenoss 5

Subject:	Zenoss Core 5.0 How to Add WMI Support
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-06-01 10:56

Zenoss Core 5.0 How to Add WMI Support