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Resource Manager
Resource Manager
- Plan
  Plan
  - Welcome to Zenoss
    
    Welcome to Zenoss
    
    Introduction to Control Center
    
    Introduction to Zenoss Service Dynamics
    
    Installation
  - Resource Manager virtual appliances
  - Control Center requirements
    
    Control Center requirements
    
    Installation considerations
    
    Compute and storage requirements
    
    Compute and storage requirements
    
    Master requirements
    
    Delegate requirements
    
    OS requirements
- Install
  Install
  - Adding Resource Manager to a Control Center deployment
  - Installing a master host
    
    Installing a master host
    
    Creating a master host with Hyper-V
    
    Creating a master host with vSphere
  - Install delegate hosts
    
    Install delegate hosts
    
    Creating a delegate host with Hyper-V
    
    Creating a delegate host with vSphere
  - Configuring a multi-host deployment
    
    Configuring a multi-host deployment
    
    Enable NTP on Hyper-V guests
  - Resource pool permissions
- Configure
  Configure
  - Enabling browser access
    
    Enabling browser access
    
    Creating and changing public endpoints
    
    Creating and changing public endpoints
    
    Creating a port public endpoint
    
    Creating a virtual host public endpoint
    
    Configuring name resolution for virtual hosts
  - Procedures
    
    Procedures
    
    Starting Resource Manager
    
    Installing MariaDB database utilities
    
    Changing default server passwords
    
    Optional
    Optional
    
    Deleting the RabbitMQ guest user account
    
    Assigning a virtual IP address to a resource pool
    
    Replacing the default digital certificate
    
    Configuring customization management
    
    Configuring OpenTSDB compaction
    
    Creating a Redis cluster in a collector pool
    
    Enabling monitoring on IPv6 networks
    
    Configuring an external HBase
  - Preparing for monitoring
    
    Preparing for monitoring
    
    Preparing network devices
    
    Preparing storage devices
    
    Preparing server devices
    
    Preparing hypervisor devices
    
    Validating configuration using Inspector tool
- Admin
  Admin
  - Using Resource Manager
    
    Using Resource Manager
    
    Initial login
    
    Interface and navigation
    
    Administering Resource Manager dashboards
    
    Search
    
    Using the event console
    
    Running a command
    
    Dynamic service view
    
    Dynamic service view
    
    Dynamic view of organizers
    
    Dynamic view of devices
    
    Datacenter view
    
    Datacenter view
    
    Working with the List View
    
    Working with the Custom View
    
    Activating the auto-generated rack view
  - Preparing devices
    
    Preparing devices
    
    Configuring SNMP on Linux
    
    Configuring SNMP on Windows
    
    Configuring SSH key-based monitoring
  - Working with devices
    
    Working with devices
    
    Using the device interface
    
    Using the device interface
    
    Dependency view
    
    Dynamic view
    
    Events view
    
    Components
    
    Graphs (Performance)
    
    Modeler plugins
    
    Configuration properties
    
    Custom properties
    
    Device administration
    
    Overriden objects
    
    Software
    
    Managing devices
    
    Managing devices
    
    Clearing heartbeat events
    
    Renaming a device
    
    Re-identifying a device
    
    Resetting the device manage IP address
    
    Updating device configuration
    
    Remodeling a device
    
    Deleting a device
    
    Locking device configuration
    
    Exporting a device list
    
    Importing a device list
    
    Adding devices
    
    Adding devices
    
    Discovering devices
    
    Discovering devices
    
    Discovery mapping
    
    Scanning a network
    
    Classifying discovered devices
    
    Updating device authentication details
    
    Adding or editing device information
    
    Adding devices manually
  - Monitoring
    
    Monitoring
    
    Monitoring templates
    
    Monitoring templates
    
    Thresholds
    
    Performance graphs
    
    SNMP monitoring
    
    zencommand
    
    Data point aliases
    
    Performance data retention
    
    Availability monitoring
    
    Availability monitoring
    
    zenping
    
    IP service monitoring
    
    Process monitoring
    
    Windows Services monitoring
    
    The network map page
    
    Monitoring Zenoss
    
    Monitoring Zenoss
    
    Control Center Monitoring
    
    Resource Manager Monitoring
  - Distributed monitoring
    
    Distributed monitoring
    
    Adding a collector or hub
    
    Moving devices between collectors
    
    Collector and hub interface
  - Extending Resource Manager with ZenPacks
    
    Extending Resource Manager with ZenPacks
    
    Installing or updating a ZenPack
    
    Removing a ZenPack
    
    Creating a ZenPack
  - Using organizers
    
    Using organizers
    
    Device classes
    
    Groups, Systems, and Locations
    
    Groups, Systems, and Locations
    
    Setting an address for a location
    
    Network links
    
    Google Maps example
    
    Clearing the Google Maps cache
    
    Component groups
  - Managing background tasks
  - Configuration properties
    
    Configuration properties
    
    Inheritance and override
    
    Configuration property types
    
    Device properties
    
    Event properties
    
    Network properties
  - Modeling
    
    Modeling
    
    Modeling devices using SSH
    
    Modeling devices using port scan
    
    About modeler plugins
    
    Debugging the modeling process
  - Production states and maintenance windows
    
    Production states and maintenance windows
    
    Maintenance windows
  - Event management
    
    Event management
    
    De-duplication
    
    Auto-clear correlation
    
    Event consoles
    
    Event sources
    
    Event sources
    
    SNMP traps
    
    SNMP traps
    
    Classifying traps
    
    Example: Sending test traps
    
    Transforming events with event mappings
    
    SNMP trap filtering
    
    SNMP trap forwarding
    
    Receiving SNMP v3 traps
    
    Syslog parsing
    
    Syslog message forwarding
    
    Creating events manually
    
    Understanding event classes
    
    Event mapping and transforms
    
    Event mapping and transforms
    
    Event class mappings
    
    Mapping sequence
    
    Event class transform
    
    Capturing emails as events
    
    MIB file administration
    
    MIB file administration
    
    Using MIB files
    
    Importing pre-loaded MIB organizers and files
    
    Creating a MIB organizer
    
    Installing additional MIB files
  - Triggers and notifications
    
    Triggers and notifications
    
    Working with triggers
    
    Working with notifications
    
    Working with notifications
    
    Defining notification content
    
    Defining notification content
    
    Email action content
    
    Command action content
    
    Page action content
    
    Syslog action content
    
    SNMP Trap action content
    
    WinCommand action content
  - Managing users
    
    Managing users
    
    Creating accounts
    
    Editing accounts
    
    User groups
    
    Roles and permissions
    
    Device access control lists
    
    Device access control lists
    
    Example: Restricted user with ZenOperator role
    
    Detailed restricted screen functionality
  - General administration and settings
    
    General administration and settings
    
    Audit logging
    
    User commands
    
    Changing events database connection information
    
    Rebuilding the events index
    
    Support bundles
    
    Administering job services
- Troubleshoot
  Troubleshoot
  - Data pipelines
    
    Data pipelines
    
    Events
    
    Modeling
    
    Performance data
  - zenhub logs
  - HBase healthcheck
- Update
  Update
  - Release 6.7.0
    
    Release 6.7.0
    
    Updating non-appliance deployments to release 6.7.0
  - Release 6.6.0
    
    Release 6.6.0
    
    Add migration images
    
    Remove migration images
    
    Updating non-appliance deployments to release 6.6.0
    
    Updating the global configuration file
  - Release 6.5.0
  - Release 6.4.1
    
    Release 6.4.1
    
    Preparing an appliance-based deployment for update
    
    Preparing an appliance-based deployment for update
    
    Downloading required update files
    
    Attaching an update ISO with vSphere
    
    Attaching an update ISO with Hyper-V
    
    Stopping Resource Manager
    
    Removing Docker containers on the master host
    
    Removing Docker containers on delegate hosts
    
    Updating an appliance-based deployment
    
    Updating an appliance-based deployment
    
    Updating Control Center on a delegate host
    
    Updating Control Center on the master host
    
    Updating delegate hosts with authentication
    
    Updating Resource Manager on the master host
    
    Starting Resource Manager after an update
    
    Clearing heartbeat events after updating
    
    Updating non-appliance deployments
    
    Updating non-appliance deployments
    
    Preparing a deployment for update
    
    Preparing a deployment for update
    
    Installing the base image, if necessary
    
    Downloading Resource Manager image files
    
    Importing Resource Manager image files
    
    Stopping Resource Manager on non-appliance deployments
    
    Updating Resource Manager on non-appliance deployments
    
    Removing the pre-upgrade snapshot
    
    Using Zenoss Toolbox
    
    Common update error recovery procedures
    
    Installing an application template
    
    ZenPack considerations
- Release notes
  Release notes
  - Resource Manager 6.8.0
  - Resource Manager 6.7.0
  - Resource Manager 6.6.0
  - Resource Manager 6.5.0
    
    Resource Manager 6.5.0
    
    Managing custom MariaDB passwords before updating
  - Resource Manager 6.4.1
    
    Resource Manager 6.4.1
    
    Updating the Dashboard ZenPack
    
    Patching a Linux modeling issue
    
    Removing customized MariaDB passwords for system updates
    
    Verifying zenhubworker services updated successfully
  - Resource Manager 6.4.0
  - Resource Manager 6.3.2
  - Resource Manager 6.2.1
- Appendix
  Appendix
  - Resource Manager interface reference
    
    Resource Manager interface reference
    
    DASHBOARD (Resource Manager)
    
    EVENTS
    
    INFRASTRUCTURE
    
    REPORTS
    
    REPORTS
    
    AWS Reports
    
    Azure
    
    Capacity Planning
    
    Cisco UCS Capacity Reports
    
    Cisco UCS Capacity Reports
    
    Aggregate Bandwidth Utilization
    
    Aggregate Port Pool Utilization
    
    Bandwidth Utilization vs Capacity
    
    HostNetworkCapacity
    
    Interface 95th Percentile
    
    Interface Utilization
    
    Interface Volume (Cisco UCS)
    
    Port Utilization
    
    Storage Utilization vs Capacity
    
    Cisco UCS Reports
    
    Custom Device Reports
    
    Device Reports
    
    Device Reports
    
    All Devices
    
    All Monitored Components
    
    Device Changes
    
    HP Chassis List
    
    HP Device Bay List
    
    MAC Addresses
    
    Model Collection Age
    
    New Devices
    
    Ping Status Issues
    
    SNMP Status Issues
    
    Software Inventory
    
    Enterprise Reports
    
    Enterprise Reports
    
    Cisco Inventory
    
    Customized Performance Templates
    
    Data Sources in Use
    
    Datapoints Per Collector
    
    Defined Thresholds
    
    Enterprise Reports
    
    Interface Utilization
    
    Interface Volume
    
    Maintenance Windows (enterprise report)
    
    Network Topology
    
    Notifications and Triggers by Recipient
    
    Organizer Availability
    
    Organizer Graphs
    
    User Event Activity
    
    Users Group Membership
    
    Event Reports
    Event Reports
    
    All Event Classes
    
    All Event Mappings
    
    All Heartbeats
    
    Disabled Transforms
    
    Graph Reports
    
    Monitoring Capabilities Reports
    
    Multi-Graph Reports
    
    Performance Reports
    Performance Reports
    
    Availability Report
    
    CPU Utilization
    
    Filesystem Util Report
    
    Interface Utilization
    
    Memory Utilization
    
    Threshold Summary
    
    Storage
    
    vSphere
    
    ADVANCED
    
    ADVANCED
    
    Settings
    
    Control Center
    
    Move Devices
    
    Monitoring Templates
    
    Jobs
    
    MIBs
    
    Licensing
  - Appliance Administration
    
    Appliance Administration
    
    Configure Network and DNS
    
    Configure Network and DNS
    
    Configure static IPv4 addressing
    
    Edit Docker virtual bridge
    
    Activate a connection
    
    Setting the system hostname
    
    Configure IPv6 Network CIDR
    
    Configure Timezone
    
    Change Docker Hub Credentials
    
    Install Add-ons
    
    Change root Password
    
    Change ccuser Password
    
    Update System
    
    Change SSL settings
    
    Root Shell
    
    Reboot / Poweroff System
  - Managing Zope instances
    
    Managing Zope instances
    
    Dedicated Zope service for reporting
    
    Dedicated Zope service for Zenoss JSON API use
    
    Dedicated Zope service for debugging
  - SNMP device preparation
    
    SNMP device preparation
    
    Net-SNMP
    
    SNMP v3 support
    
    Community information
    
    System contact information
    
    Extra information
  - Syslog device preparation
  - TALES expressions
    
    TALES expressions
    
    TALES expression examples
    
    TALES device attributes
    
    TALES event attributes
  - Managing multi-realm networks
  - Monitoring large file systems
  - LDAP authentication
    
    LDAP authentication
    
    Configuration requirements
    
    Adding an SSL certificate
    
    Configuring authentication
    
    Editing LDAP configurations
    
    Local authentication fallback
    
    Verifying connectivity and credentials outside of Resource Manager
  - Tuning considerations
    
    Tuning considerations
    
    Analytics ETL services
    
    Collection services
    
    Zenhub and its workers
    
    Event processing services
    
    Infrastructure services
    
    Job services architecture and tuning
    
    Metric services
    
    Tuning Control Center
    
    User interface services
Control Center
Control Center
- Installation
  Installation
  - Prerequisites
  - Multi-host deployments
    
    Multi-host deployments
    
    Install the master host
    
    Install delegate hosts
    
    Configure ZooKeeper
  - Single-host deployments
  - Resolve package conflicts
- Using
  Using
  - Browser interface
    
    Browser interface
    
    Main menu
    
    Applications
    
    Resource pools
    
    Hosts
    
    Logs
    
    Backup/Restore
  - Command-line interface
    
    Command-line interface
    
    serviced
    
    serviced backup
    
    serviced config
    
    serviced debug
    
    serviced docker
    
    serviced healthcheck
    
    serviced host
    
    serviced key
    
    serviced log export
    
    serviced metric
    
    serviced pool
    
    serviced restore
    
    serviced script
    
    serviced service
    
    serviced snapshot
    
    serviced-storage
    
    serviced template
    
    serviced version
- Admin
  Admin
  - Storage requirements
    
    Storage requirements
    
    Expanding the thin pool
    
    Expanding the tenant volume
  - Emergency shutdown
  - Using NAT
  - Back up and restore
    
    Back up and restore
    
    Best practices
    
    Backup - Browser
    
    Backup - Command-line
    
    Restoring
    
    Tenant device states
  - Snapshots
  - Rolling restart
  - Audit logging
  - Rotating container logs
  - Configuring private NTP
  - Stopping and starting
  - Releases and images
  - Enabling serviced debug logging
  - Maintenance scripts
  - Configuration variables
    
    Configuration variables
    
    Master host variables
    
    Delegate host variables
    
    Universal variables
    
    Configuration file
  - Administering Linux systems
    
    Administering Linux systems
    
    Managing storage
- Upgrade
  Upgrade
- Release notes
  Release notes
Service Impact
Service Impact
- Background
- Tutorial
  Tutorial
- How-to
  How-to
  - Export service models
  - Import service models
    
    Import service models
    
    Prepare
    
    Initiate
    
    Reconcile
    
    Add to target
  - Add portlet
  - Edit server config
  - Configure processing
  - Install
  - Update 5.6.0 to 5.7.0
  - Update 5.5.5 to 5.6.0
  - Update 5.5.x to 5.5.5
  - Update 5.4.x to 5.5.5
  - Update 5.1+ to 5.5.5
  - Remove
- Reference
  Reference
  - zenimpactimport
  - Example export file
  - Example import results
  - Propagation threshold
  - MIB file
  - Service name constraints
  - Interface reference
    
    Interface reference
    
    DYNAMIC SERVICES
    
    Members view
    
    Add to Service
    
    Impact Events
    
    Impact View
    
    Node tile
    
    Policies
    
    Edit Availability options
    
    Edit Performance options
    
    Custom State Provider
    
    LOGICAL NODES
    
    METATYPE CONFIGURATION
  - Release notes
    
    Release notes
    
    5.7.0
    
    5.6.0
    
    5.5.5
    
    5.5.3
    
    5.5.2
    
    5.5.1
    
    5.5.0 CA
    
    5.4.8
    
    5.4.7 CA
    
    5.4.6
    
    5.4.5 CA
    
    5.3.1
Zenoss Analytics
Zenoss Analytics
- How-to
  How-to
- Reference
  Reference
Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager
Zenoss API for Collection Zone and Resource Manager
- How-to
  How-to
- Reference
  Reference
Archive
Archive
- Resource Manager
- Control Center
- Service Impact
- Zenoss Analytics
  Zenoss Analytics
  - Release 5.1.2
    
    Release 5.1.2
    
    Using
    Using
    
    Logging in
    
    Batches
    
    Alternate naming
    
    Retention policy
    
    Repository
    
    Searching
    
    Exporting data
    
    Reports
    Reports
    
    Creating domains
    
    Creating ad hoc views
    
    Creating reports
    
    Aggregation ERD
    
    Business hours aggregation
    
    Nth percentile calculations
    
    Projecting other aggregates
    
    Administering
    Administering
    
    Install
    
    Upgrade
    
    Upgrade
    
    Upgrading 4.x
    
    Start or stop
    
    Remove
    
    Release notes
    
    Release notes
    
    5.1.2
    
    5.1.1
- Community Edition (Core)
- JSON API

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