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Rollout: Zenoss Core: Page 2 of 5

Beyond Eye Candy

New with Version 2 of Zenoss Core is a very nice Ajax-based interface. This is more than shiny paint--it adds significant value and maturity by making a lot more of Core's functionality available from the GUI than in previous iterations. Unfortunately, getting started was challenging as Zenoss provided no context-sensitive help to guide us through a truly staggering number of configuration options.

Another differentiator is Zenoss Core's event-management system. For any one status change--say, the HTTP port on the Web server is not responding--error messages could be coming your way via syslog, Windows Events, even SNMP traps. By aggregating all events through a single rules-processing engine, Zenoss Core eliminates duplication, making for a manageable user interface.

Although Zenoss Core is based entirely on Linux, administration requires minimal Linux knowledge. Of course, since the product is open source, you can delve into the details if you like.