What's new in Zenoss 4.2.5
Feb 2, 2015
- Implementation of RabbitMQ as a messaging framework, which supports events and jobs processing, increased scalability, and the ability to subscribe to event queues for custom processing
- Significant improvements to the event processing system, increasing to 100M+ events per day
- Alerting framework replaced with more robust, real-time triggers and notifications
- New system requirements, including Python 2.7 and MySQL 5.5.31
- RelStorage, which replaces ZEO and improves the performance of Zope object database queries
- Scalability improvements to zenperfsnmp
- Latest Ext JS® 4.1 framework
- Advanced user configuration options in the interface
- Zenoss Core now stores session information in a persistent database, which is created in MySQL
- Improvements to published JSON API examples, including the introduction of a Python client library
- REST API for querying events
- Support for SNMPv3 traps
- Ability to monitor devices directly over IPv6
- Ability to bind templates to generate ping performance information for devices and interfaces
- Faster and more resilient event suppression through nmap-based zenping
New in Zenoss 3.0.3 (Oct 28, 2010)
- The VMWare Infrastructure ESX Server ZenPack allows you to monitor ESX hosts and guests via VMWare's EsxTop utility.
- Improved scalability, with several defects closed.
- Documentation has been updated for 3.0.3, specifically theZenoss Installation Guide, Zenoss Developer's Guide, Zenoss Extended Monitoring, Zenoss Source, and JSON API Documentation.
- TheVirtual Host Monitor ZenPack has been updated.
- The Global Device Search Core ZenPack is available for installation, providing search by hostname or IP with support for wildcards.
New in Zenoss 3.0.2 (Sep 15, 2010)
- The Getting Started Guide is now available for Zenoss 3.0.
- The Global Device Search Core ZenPack is available for installation, providing search by hostname or IP address with support for wildcards.
- Reliability was improved by fixing various defects.
- The documentation has been updated for 3.0.2, specifically the Zenoss Administration Guide and the Zenoss Installation Guide.
- The Amazon Web Services ZenPack has been updated.
- The Zenoss Core 3.0.2 release notes are available in EPUB, HTML, PDF, and TXT formats.
New in Zenoss 3.0.1 (Aug 11, 2010)
- Global Device Search Core ZenPack is available for installation, providing search by hostname or IP with support for wildcards. Reliability was improved.
- Documentation has been updated, specifically the Zenoss Administration Guide, the Zenoss Extended Monitoring Guide, and the Zenoss Installation Guide.
New in Zenoss 3.0.0 (Jul 22, 2010)
- Completely redesigned user interface designed to improve operational effectiveness through simplified navigation, redesigned pages, and embedded tooltips and page tips.
- Expanded integration and customization through new REST API. In addition to its scriptable command line interface, interactive shell, and expansive Web services API based on XML-RPC, Zenoss now offers a REST API with easily consumable XML or JSON return formats. The benefit to end users is more flexible and simplified options for customization and rapid integration with other management tools.
- New search facility (accessed from the Infrastructure page) allows simultaneous substring search on device names, IP addresses, and device classes.
- Product documentation in EPUB e-book format. You can read EPUB books from your iPhone, iPad, Sony Reader, or Nook, or by using e-reader software such as Stanza, FBReader (for Linux devices), or the EPUBReader plugin (for Firefox users).
- Upgraded versions of Python (2.6) and Zope (2.12).
- Reliability and availability improvements.
New in Zenoss 2.4.5 (Sep 2, 2009)
- This release fixes several issues in the 2.4.3 and earlier releases.
- The 2.4.3 release was removed because of two severe problems found post-release.
- It is highly recommended that 2.4.3 users upgrade to 2.4.5.
New in Zenoss 2.4 (May 8, 2009)
- Zenoss Setup Wizard, which guides you through initial system configuration and device addition
- Additional, simplified method for adding devices
- Ability to implement remote SSH monitoring (requires ZenPack creation following provided example information)
- Reporting normalization
- Over 70 community-contributed ZenPacks
- Expanded documentation, including the Zenoss Extended Monitoring guide
New in Zenoss 2.3.3 (Feb 28, 2009)
- This maintenance release fixes over 80 defects.
New in Zenoss 2.3.2 (Dec 18, 2008)
New in Zenoss 2.3 (Nov 13, 2008)
- Improved Windows WMI monitoring and J2EE enhancements.
New in Zenoss 2.2.4 (Sep 30, 2008)
- A wide variety of defects were addressed, and installing and upgrading from earlier versions is documented online.