Release: Zenoss Core 3.0

Zenoss, the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core 3.0 under the GNU General Public License (V2).

Fueled by the 85,000-member Zenoss community, the newest release features an updated user interface to improve usability giving users a complete view of all IT infrastructure — physical, virtual and cloud computing.

Beyond its new functional capabilities, Zenoss Core has been integrated with multiple open source IT automation projects, providing a framework for improved functionality and enabling better prevention of service failures.

Since the last Zenoss Core release in November 2009, the community has added more than 100 new and updated management extensions to the project (called ZenPacks).

What’s New in Zenoss Core 3.0

• Simplified Interface. Based on feedback from thousands of users, Zenoss Core 3.0 includes an easy to navigate interface that allows for a better experience using and configuring Zenoss. Users now can more easily filter network monitoring data and organize their dashboards through a more efficient layout to help surface critical information for managing their physical and virtual infrastructure.

• Virtualization Monitoring Framework. The Zenoss Community has developed extensions to expand monitoring for numerous virtualization technologies: VMware ESX, VMware ESXi,Microsoft Hyper-V, Xen, and libvirt.

• Deep monitoring for Amazon Web Services (EC2). Zenoss Core can be extended to collect information for these objects monitored through Amazon’s CloudWatch APIs. As a result of the Zenoss in the Clouds community initiative, Zenoss Core can also be extended to monitor Google App Engine, Redis NoSQL databases, Ganglia-managed distributed computing systems and events from the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), which is frequently used in enterprise business and cloud environments.

• Integration with Configuration Management and Automation Tools. The Zenoss Community has developed integration with popular open source management tools Puppet andCfengine to enable interoperability between tools and provide automated disaster recovery and prevention.

• Highlights of new community ZenPacks compatible with Zenoss Core 3.0 include:

  • Event Histograms aggregate network errors and provide graphs to visually display where faults and failures are in the network, when alerts are peaking, and what type of errors are being generated.

  • HP EVA Monitor provides comprehensive monitoring and a graphical representation of storage, updating graphics based on events.

  • MySQL SSH Monitor provides identical monitoring to the Zenoss Core MySQL Monitorwithout requiring remote access.

  • Opengear wrote ZenPacks, extending Zenoss open source management tools to monitor performance of its advanced console server solutions and the target equipment attached.

  • Additional highlights: Oracle Database, Memcached, Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ), Collector Tool, and Nginx.

The Zenoss 3.0 release can be downloaded from the Zenoss Community website at:http://community.zenoss.org/community/download.