Zenoss Launches Version 1.0 Python-based IT Monitoring Product

Drew Bray drew at zenoss.com
Mon Nov 20 20:20:28 CET 2006


Zenoss Launches Core 1.0 Product
Breakthrough Solution Sets New Standard for Open Source IT Monitoring

Annapolis, MD — November 14, 2006 — Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider  
of enterprise network and systems monitoring software, today  
announced the availability of Zenoss Core version 1.0.  Zenoss Core  
is an integrated IT monitoring product that allows IT administrators  
to manage the status and health of their entire infrastructures  
through a single web-based console.  As a free, open source software  
product, Zenoss provides organizations world-wide with a new  
alternative for enterprise-grade IT monitoring that is substantially  
less expensive and easier to deploy than traditional solutions.

“Zenoss Core has been downloaded more than 50,000 times in the last  
120 days; many organizations rely on the product every day to monitor  
their mission critical IT infrastructure,” said Bill Karpovich, CEO  
and Co-Founder of Zenoss, Inc. “The solution has already been proven  
in demanding environments and today we’re launching it for mainstream  
adoption.”

Zenoss is focused on helping medium-sized organizations more  
effectively manage their rapidly growing IT infrastructures. Zenoss  
Core provides these organizations with the rich, integrated  
functionality previously available only through proprietary solutions  
that were too expensive and complex.

“Systems Management 2.0 companies, like Zenoss, are lowering the  
barriers to entry for systems management,” said RedMonk analyst  
Michael Coté. “These companies and projects are typically  
characterized by open source development and an overall, positive  
simplification of the systems management space especially for the mid- 
market.”

“We looked at several alternatives—including the large enterprise  
suites—and narrowed the selection down to BMC and Zenoss,” said Jim  
Stalder, CIO of Mercy Medical Services in Baltimore, MD.  “Zenoss was  
the best choice in terms of ease-of-deployment and price.  With  
Zenoss, we have improved our responsiveness and availability, and we  
are saving 80% over the cost of a proprietary solution.”

Zenoss monitors the entire infrastructure including network devices,  
server hardware, operating systems, applications, software versions,  
and environmental controls. Zenoss Core 1.0 builds significant  
advancements in scalability, a richer user interface, and a high  
level of stability on top of the Zenoss Core features. The key  
features of Zenoss include:
Cross-Layer Monitoring–Inventory and Configuration Model:  Zenoss  
populates (using auto-discovery) and maintains a complete database of  
the IT infrastructure, including configuration details, dependencies,  
and logical views.

Availability Monitoring:  End-to-end, active testing of  
infrastructure elements and application services, including process  
monitoring, simple ping tests, and more sophisticated “synthetic  
transactions.”

Performance Monitoring:  Zenoss tracks and graphs over time a  
virtually unlimited set of performance metrics across all  
infrastructure components.  Alerts are generated when Zenoss detects  
breaches of end-user thresholds.

Event Management:  Zenoss collects events and alarms from throughout  
the infrastructure into a central repository where they are  
correlated, prioritized, and archived for historical analysis. Rules  
are configured by end users to generate pages and/or emails as  
matching conditions are discovered.

Zenoss 1.0 also includes many new features that augment the Zenoss  
Core modules.

Remote Management:   Securely manage remote servers through the use  
of Zen Plug-ins.
Sophisticated Alerting:  Version 1.0 offers a complex alerting  
faculty that enables alerts to be sent to pagers or email and can  
even adhere to an “on call” schedule.

Automated Update Checking:   A new automatic software update feature  
makes it easy to keep up with the latest Zenoss Core security and  
feature updates.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Support:  Zenoss Core 1.0 is officially  
supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and has received Red Hat  
Ready Certification.  In addition, Zenoss has committed to support  
future versions of the commercial Linux operating system.

Zenoss Core 1.0 is available for download at http://www.zenoss.com/ 
download/.

About Zenoss, Inc.
Recently named one of the “Top 10 Open Source Companies to Watch” by  
Network World, Zenoss is an open source network and systems  
management software company based in Annapolis, MD.  Zenoss provides  
the most complete open source monitoring platform as a lower cost and  
easier-to-deploy alternative to traditional proprietary solutions.  
For more information, please visit www.zenoss.com.

Project Blurb
Zenoss is Python/Zope-based, network/systems monitoring application  
that has been in development since 2002. The goal of Zenoss is to  
“Simplify Systems Management” with a Python, open source alternative  
to the big commercial management suites (e.g. IBM Tivoli, HP  
OpenView, etc.).
  


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