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Device properties

This section further illustrates the characteristics of configuration properties from the perspective of the Resource Manager interface.

  1. From the navigation bar, choose INFRASTRUCTURE.

  2. In the tree view, click DETAILS > Configuration Properties. The Configuration Properties page for the selected device class appears.

    The following figure shows device configuration properties that are defined at the root level. The zCollectorClientTimeout configuration property has a default value of 180.

In the following figure, the zCollectorClientTimeout configuration property value is set to 170 at the /Server/Linux device class. The device class value overrides the default value at this node of the hierarchy.

    1. To remove the override and once again inherit the value from the root of the hierarchy: 1. Select the property in the list. 2. Click Delete Local Copy and, when prompted, click OK.

List of device configuration properties

Name Type Description
zAWSAutoChangeProdState boolean Whether to enable or disable auto change of the production state for EC2 instances. Default is true (enabled).
zAWSAutoChangeProdStateRunning int By default, the state is changed to Production (1000) for running EC2 instances. Specify a custom state ID number.
zAWSAutoChangeProdStateStopped int By default, the production state is changed to Decommissioned (-1) for stopped EC2 instances. Specify a custom state ID number.
zAWSBillingCostThreshold int Sets the spending threshold and triggers an event if spending exceeds the value. Default is 1000.
zAWSCloudFormationEventsAutoClear boolean If set to True, for each CREATE_COMPLETE and DELETE_COMPLETE, the corresponding auto-clear event is generated to clear previous CRITICAL events.
zAWSCloudWatchMaxParallel int Specify the number of concurrent CloudWatch calls.
zAWSCloudWatchMaxRetries int Specify the number of retries for CloudWatch calls.
zAWSCloudWatchSSL boolean Whether to use SSL when connecting to AWSCloudWatch API.
zAWSDiscover awsdiscoverfield To configure instance guest device discovery, for the instance, specify the <tag:value>. Guest device discovery must be configured individually fo reach EC2 account.
zAWSEnableSnapshotCollection boolean Whether to disable the collection of snapshots, thereby improving modeling performance.
zAWSGuestCollector string Specify the name of the collector that all discovered devices for this AWS device use.
zAWSGuestDeviceTitleTag string To populate the guest devices' titles based on an AWS tag from the instance, set the tag name.
zAWSGuestUsePublicIPs boolean Whether to use a public IP address for creating guest devices.
zAWSRegionPEM multilinekeypath Set the region name and path to PEM file for use in auto-discovering instance guest operating systems.
zAWSRegionToModel string Narrow components that are modeled. By default, all EC2 regions and child components are discovered. Specify EC2 region name or multiple names separated by commas.
zAWSRemodelEnabled boolean When disabled, only the instance state is updated on existing instances. When enabled, all instance properties are updated on existing instances, and new instances are added to the model.
zAWSResetGuestCollector boolean Applies to guest devices (not EC2 account). Specifies whether to change the collector if you have set it manually.
zAggregatorCollectionInterval int Aggregator collection interval in seconds. Default is 300.
zAzureClientID string To model and monitor resources that were created in Azure Resource Manager Deployment Model (ARM) or Azure Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), the account must be available to authenticate requests using Azure service principal. Specify the client ID number.
zAzureEAAccessKey string To enable billing data collection for Enterprise Accounts, you must specify the access keyand enrollment number, and the AzureEABillingDataSourcePlugin data source plugin must be attached to monitoring template /Azure/AzureSubscription.
zAzureEABillingCostThreshold multilinethreshold Sets the spending threshold and triggers an event if spending exceeds the value.
zAzureEAEnrollmentNumber string To enable billing data collection for Enterprise Accounts, you must specify the access keyand enrollment number, and the AzureEABillingDataSourcePlugin data source plugin must be attached to monitoring template /Azure/AzureSubscription.
zAzureMonitoringIgnore string Specify a Python expression that returns a boolean value, which is evaluated against each device component. If the result is True, then the component is not monitored.
zAzureSecretKey string To model and monitor resources that were created in Azure Resource Manager Deployment Model (ARM) or Azure Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), the account must be available to authenticate requests using Azure service principal. Specify the secret key.
zAzureTenantID string To model and monitor resources that were created in Azure Resource Manager Deployment Model (ARM) or Azure Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), the account must be available to authenticate requests using Azure service principal. Specify the tenant ID number.
zCiscoACEUseSSL boolean Whether to use SSL when connecting to ACE XML API.
zCiscoNXAPIInterval int Value in seconds of the rediscovery interval using the Cisco NX-API protocol. Default valueis 300.
zCiscoNXAPIPort int Port for connecting to NX-API.
zCiscoNXAPIUseSSL boolean Whether to use SSL when connecting to NX-API.
zCiscoRemodelEventClassKeys lines Allows you to modify the list of SNMP traps that will cause the product schedule an immediate remodeling of the device from which the trap was sent.
zCiscoUCSCIMCEventsInterval int Event collection interval in seconds. Default is 60.
zCiscoUCSCIMCPerfInterval int Metric collection interval in seconds. Default is 300.
zCiscoUCSCIMCSSLProtocol string The SSL/TLS protocol used to connect to a CIMC device.
zCiscoUCSManagerPassword password Password for UCS Manager user name.
zCiscoUCSManagerPerfInterval int Seconds between UCS Manager statistics collections. Default value is 300.
zCiscoUCSManagerPort int Port used to connect to the UCS Manager or CIMC XML APIs. Default is 443 and typically should not be changed.
zCiscoUCSManagerUseSSL boolean Whether to use SSL when connecting to the UCS Manager or CIMC XML APIs. Default is true and typically should not be changed.
zCiscoUCSManagerUser string UCS Manager user name.
zCollectorClientTimeout int Allows you to set the timeout time of the collector client in seconds
zCollectorDecoding string Converts incoming characters to Unicode.
zCollectorLogChanges boolean Indicates whether to log changes.
zCommandCollectionInterval int The default collection interval (number of seconds) for command datasources.
zCommandCommandTimeout float Specifies the time to wait for a command to complete.
zCommandLoginTimeout float Specifies the time to wait for a login prompt.
zCommandLoginTries int Sets the number of times to attempt login.
zCommandPassword password Specifies the password to use when performing command logins and SSH.
zCommandPath string

Sets the default path where ZenCommand plug-ins are installed on Resource Manager (or on a remote box where SSH is used to run the command).
zCommandPort int Specifies the port to connect to when performing command collection.
zCommandProtocol string Establishes the protocol to use when performing command collection. Possible values are SSH and telnet.
zCommandSearchPath lines Sets the path to search for any commands.
zCommandUserCommandTimeout float Specifies the number of seconds to wait for a user command to complete.
zCommandUsername string Specifies the user name to use when performing command collection and SSH.
zControlCenterHost string Control Center host name. Defaults to device name.
zControlCenterModelCycle int Control Center modeling inteval. Defaults to 3600s.
zControlCenterPassword password Password for the Control Center user name.
zControlCenterPerfCycle int Control Center performance collection interval. Defaults to 300s.
zControlCenterPort int Port for Control Center. Defaults to HTTPS TCP/443
zControlCenterUser string Control Center user name.
zDBInstances *** ***instancecredentials. This setting is only relevant when the zenoss.winrm.WinMSSQL modeler plugin is enabled. Multiple instances can be specified to monitor multiple SQL Server instances per server. The default instance is MSSQLSERVER. Fill in the user and password to use SQL authentication. Leave the user and password blank to use Windows authentication.
zDatasourceDebugLogging boolean True or False to debug calculated/aggregated data sources on a single device.
zDeviceTemplates lines Sets the templates associated with this device. Linked by name.
zDockerMonitorContainerSize boolean True or false to monitor the real size and virtual size of each container once every ten minutes. The default is false (not enabled) because the command takes a long time to run when many containers, or large containers are used.
zDockerMonitorContainerStats boolean True or false to collect the statistics of each container once every five minutes. The default is true (enabled).
zDockerMonitorContainerStatus boolean True or false to check the status of the Docker daemon once per minute. The default is true (enabled).
zDiscoveryMappingOn boolean True or False to determine whether discovered devices are automatically moved to device classes that match their hardware and operating system. If False (disabled), devices are not moved from the /Discovered device class.
zEnablePassword boolean True or False to specify use of password for Cisco routers.
zFileSystemMapIgnoreNames string Sets a regular expression of file system names to ignore.
zFileSystemMapIgnoreTypes lines Do not use.
zFileSystemSizeOffset int SNMP typically reports the total space available to privileged users. Resource Manager (like the df command) reports capacity based on the space available to non-privileged users. The value of zFileSystemSizeOffset should be the fraction of the total space that is available to non-privileged users. The default reserved value is 5% of total space, so zFileSystemSizeOffset is preset to .95. If the reserved portionis different than 5%, then adjust the value of zFileSystemSizeOffset accordingly. The fraction should be set according to the value (Used + Avail) / Size when the df -PkH command is run at the command line.
zHardDiskMapMatch string Regular expression that uses the disk ID in the diskstats output to filter disk activity statistics for inclusion in performance monitoring.
zHyperVDiscoverGuests boolean True or false to discover virtual machine guest devices. Guest device discovery must be configured individually for each Hyper-V server. The default is false.
zILOCollectSamples boolean True or false to collect and save raw data for debug purposes.
zILOPassword password The ILO authentication password. Data from ILO devices is provided by a HTTPS interface listening on port 443. The following properties control access to ILO devices: zILOUserName, zILOPassword, zILOUseSSL, and zILOPort.
zILOPort string The TCP port for ILO communication. Data from ILO devices is provided by a HTTPS interface listening on port 443. The following properties control access to ILO devices: zILOUserName, zILOPassword, zILOUseSSL, and zILOPort.
zILOUseSSL boolean True or false to use HTTPS for ILO communication. Data from ILO devices is provided by a HTTPS interface listening on port 443. The following properties control access to ILO devices: zILOUserName, zILOPassword, zILOUseSSL, and zILOPort.
zILOUserName string The ILO user name. Data from ILO devices is provided by a HTTPS interface listening on port 443. The following properties control access to ILO devices: zILOUserName, zILOPassword, zILOUseSSL, and zILOPort.
zIcon lines Specifies the icon to represent the device wherever device icon is shown, such as on the network map and device status page.
zIdiomPassword password IDIOM API password for Cisco IDS/IPS devices.
zIdiomUsername string IDIOM API username for Cisco IDS/IPS devices.
zIfDescription boolean Shows the interface description field in the interface list.
zIgnoreUnmounted boolean True or false to specify whether to ignore unmounted drives.
zInterfaceMapIgnoreDescriptions string Filters out interfaces based on description.
zInterfaceMapIgnoreNames string Filters out interfaces that should not be discovered. If you want to use an expression to define this property, note that only Python regular expressions are valid.
zInterfaceMapIgnoreTypes string Filters out interface maps that should not be discovered.
zIpServiceMapMaxPort int Specifies the highest port to scan. The default is 1024.
zJmxAuthenticate boolean True or False to enable/disable authentication.
zJmxManagementPort int Port that enables JMX management
zJmxPassword password JMX username password
zJmxUsername string JMX username
zKeyPath string Sets the path to the SSH key for device access.
zLDOMsAutodiscover boolean Specify true or false for auto-discovery of LDOMs.
zLTMVirtualServerIgnoreNames string Regular expression that can be used to prevent matching LTM Virtual Servers from being modeled.
zLinks string Specifies a place to enter any links associated with the device.
zLocalInterfaceNames string Regular expression that uses interface name to determine whether the IP addresses on an interface should be incorporated into the network map. For instance, a loopback interface "lo" might be excluded.
zLocalIpAddresses string Specifies IP addresses that should be excluded from the network map (for example, 127.x addresses). If you have addresses that you reuse for connections between clustered machines, you might add those addresses.
zMaxOIDPerRequest int Sets the maximum number of OIDs to be sent by the SNMP collection daemons when querying information. Some devices have small buffers for handling this information, so a lower value might be appropriate.
zMySQLConnectionString multilinecredentials Specifies a list of properties (user, password, and port) for MySQL connections.
zMySqlPassword password MySQL user password
zMySqlPort string MySQL connection port
zMySqlTimeout int MySQL timeout. Default value is 30s.
zMySqlUsername string MySQL user name.
zNetAppNumRecordsPerRequest int Number of records per NetApp Monitor request. Default is 100.
zNetAppSSL boolean Boolean true or false to enable SSL use with the NetApp Monitor.
zNmapPortscanOptions string Options used on nmap when scanning ports. Used in IpServiceMap.
zNodesAutodiscover boolean Specify true or false for auto-discovery of nodes.
zPingMonitorIgnore boolean Specify whether to ping the device.
zProdStateThreshold int Production state threshold at which Resource Manager will begin to monitor a device.
zPropertyMonitorInterval int Polling interval of the configured property data sources. System-wide setting. Default is 300s.
zPythonClass string DO NOT USE
zRMMonCCHost string Host name or IP address of the Control Center instance on which the Resource Manager to monitor is running.
zRMMonCCUser string User name of the Control Center instance on which Resource Manager is running.
zRMMonCCPassword password Password for the Control Center user name.
zRMMonCCPort int Port for Control Center. Defaults to HTTPS TCP/443.
zRMMonRabbitPassword password Password for the RabbitMQ user name. Defaults to the system default.
zRMMonRabbitUser string User name for RabbitMQ. Defaults to the system default.
zRMMonTenantHost string Resource Manager host name.
zRMMonTenantPassword password Password for the Resource Manager user name.
zRMMonTenantPerfCycle int Performance collection interval. Defaults to 30s.
zRMMonTenantPort int Port for Resource Manager. Defaults to HTTPS TCP/443.
zRMMonTenantUseSsl boolean True or false value to use SSL. Defaults to true.
zRMMonTenantUser string Resource Manager user name.
zRouteMapCollectOnlyIndirect boolean Only collect routes that are indirectly connected to the device.
zRouteMapCollectOnlyLocal boolean Only collect local routes. (These usually are manually configured rather than learned through a routing protocol.)
zRouteMapMaxRoutes int Sets maximum number of routes to collect. Default value is 500.
zSnmpAuthPassword password The shared private key used for authentication. Must be at least 8 characters long.
zSnmpAuthType string Use "MD5" or "SHA" signatures to authenticate SNMP requests
zSnmpCollectionInterval int Defines, in seconds, how often the system collects performance information for each device.
zSnmpCommunities lines Array of SNMP community strings used by the Network Discovery wizard when collecting SNMP information. When you set this property, communities are tried in order; the first in the list that is successful is used as zSnmpCommunity. If none is successful, then the current value of zSnmpCommunity is used. The default value for the entire system is "public."
zSnmpCommunity string Community string to be used when collecting SNMP information. If it is different than what is found by ZenModeler, it will be set on the modeled device.
zSnmpContext string Configures zSNMP context to map logical network entity such as a topology or protocol instance.
zSnmpDiscoveryPorts int List of UDP ports to try when performing SNMP discovery. Defaults to 161 if notset.
zSnmpEngineId string SNMPv3 engine ID for the device. Will be discovered when SNMPv3 is used.
zSnmpMonitorIgnore boolean Whether or not to ignore monitoring SNMP on a device.
zSnmpPort int Port that the SNMP agent listens on.
zSnmpPrivPassword password The shared private key used for encrypting SNMP requests. Must be at least 8 characters long.
zSnmpPrivType string "DES" or "AES" cryptographic algorithms.
zSnmpSecurityName string The Security Name (user) to use when making SNMPv3 requests.
zSnmpTimeout float Timeout time in seconds for an SNMP request
zSnmpTries int Amount of tries to collect SNMP data
zSnmpVer string SNMP version used. Valid values are v2c, v1
zSshConcurrentSessions int Maximum number of sessions supported by the remote device's MAX_SESSIONS parameter. Common values for AIX are 2 or 10.
zStatusConnectTimeout float The amount of time that the zenstatus daemon should wait before marking an IP service down.
zSysedgeDiskMapIgnoreNames string Regular expression used by zenoss.snmp.SysedgeDiskMap modeler plugin. Disks with matching names will not be modeled.
zTelnetEnable boolean When logging into a Cisco device issue the enable command to enable access during command collection.
zTelnetEnableRegex string Regular expression to match the enable prompt.
zTelnetLoginRegex string Regular expression to match the login prompt.
zTelnetPasswordRegex string Regular expression to match the password prompt.
zTelnetPromptTimeout float Time to wait for the telnet prompt to return.
zTelnetSuccessRegexList lines List of regular expressions to match the command prompt.
zTelnetTermLength boolean On a Cisco device, set term length to Zero.
zUsesManageIp boolean True or False to specify use of manage IP. Used to avoid setting manage IP when a device is added.

Default is True for most device classes.

For the /ZenossRM device class, default is False to allow modeling many Resource Manager instances per Control Center without manage IP collisions.
zUsesStandardDeviceCreationJob boolean True or False to specify whether to use the standard device creation job.
zVSphereEndpointHost string vSphere host name
zVSphereEndpointPassword password vSphere username password
zVSphereEndpointPort int Port that is used to connect to vSphere Endpoint.
zVSphereEndpointUseSsl boolean vSphere boolean true or false for SSL use
zVSphereEndpointUser string vSphere username
zVSphereHostCollectionClusterWhitelist lines The whitelist filters the hosts that are monitored, based on cluster names.
zVSphereHostPingBlacklist lines List of regular expressions to control which management IP address to ping (matches against hostname:nicname:ip). Note: zVSphereHostPingWhitelist takes precedence ove rzVSphereHostPingBlacklist.
zVSphereHostPingWhitelist lines List of regular expressions to control which management IP address to ping (matches against hostname:nicname:ip). Note: zVSphereHostPingWhitelist takes precedence overz VSphereHostPingBlacklist.
zVSphereHostSystemPassword password Password that is used to access ESX hosts via ssh and API.
zVSphereHostSystemUser string User name that is used to access ESX hosts via ssh and API.
zVSphereLUNContextMetric boolean Controls whether to use LUN-specific metric names when storing performance data.

Note: The default value is False. Changing the value toTrue causes historical metrics to become inaccessible. For more information, customers may contact Zenoss Support.
zVSphereModelCache lines vSphere model cache
zVSphereModelIgnore lines vSphere model ignore
zVSphereModelMpIndexObjs int

Advanced tuning parameter. For more information, customers may contact Zenoss Support.
zVSphereModelMpLevel int

Advanced tuning parameter. For more information, customers may contact Zenoss Support.
zVSphereModelMpObjs int

Advanced tuning parameter. For more information, customers may contact Zenoss Support.
zVSpherePerfDelayCollectionMinutes int Value of how long to lag performance data collection. Default value is 0.
zVSpherePerfMaxAgeMinutes int Default value is 28 minutes.
zVSpherePerfParallelQueries int Default value is 6.
zVSpherePerfQueryChunkSize int Value of how many performance requests to make at a time. Default value is 250.
zVSpherePerfQueryRaw20 boolean Default value is true.
zVSpherePerfQueryTimeout int Default value is 200.
zVSpherePerfQueryVcChunkSize int Default value is 64.
zVSpherePerfQueryVcRaw20 boolean Default value is false.
zVSpherePerfRecoveryMinutes int Default value is 240 minutes.
zVSpherePerfTimeoutRecoveryMinutes int When a timeout error occurs in querying a specific metric, it is "blacklisted" for this number of minutes before it is retried. This action avoids repeated errors due to attempts to query a metric that is not working properly. The default is one hour. If gaps appear in the graphs, you can safely lower the value.
zVSphereVMContextMetric boolean Controls whether to use VM-specific metric names when storing performance data.

Note: The default value is False. Changing the value to True causes historical metrics to become inaccessible. For more information, customers may contact Zenoss Support.
zWBEMPassword password WBEM password
zWBEMPort int Value of the WBEM port number. Default value is 5989.
zWBEMUseSSL boolean True or false value to use SSL. Default value is true.
zWBEMUsername string WBEM username
zWebTxAgent string Default value is ZenWebTx/1.0.
zWebTxPassword password WebTx password
zWebTxRealm string WebTx realm
zWebTxUser string WebTx user
zWebsphereServer string Used by the provided template to build the xpath queries for the data to collect. You mustsupply a value for this field. For example: serverAB, There is no default value.
zWebsphereURLPath string Path to the PMI servlet on a WebSphere instance. The default value is the default path on aWebSphere installation: wasPerTool/servlet/perfservlet
zWinKDC string IP address or fully-qualified domain name of a valid Windows domain controller. Must be set if domain authentication is used.
zWinKeyTabFilePath string This property is currently used and reserved for future use when keytab files are supported.
zWinPerfmonInterval int Interval, in seconds, at which Windows Perfmon datapoints will be collected. Default valueis 300. It is possible to override the collection interval for individual counters.
zWinRMClusterNodeClass string Path under which to create cluster nodes.
zWinRMEnvelopeSize int Used when WinRM configuration setting "MaxEnvelopeSizekb" exceeds default of 512k.
zWinRMKrb5DisableRDNS boolean Set to true to disable reverse DNS lookups by Kerberos. Only set at /Server/Microsoft level.
zWinRMKrb5includedir string Directory path for Kerberos configuration files.
zWinRMLocale string Communication locale to use for monitoring. Reserved for future use.
zWinRMPassword password Password for the user defined by zWinRMUser
zWinRMPort int The port on which the Windows server is listening for WinRM or WS-Management connections. Default value is 5985. It is uncommon for this to be configured as anything else.
zWinRMServerName string

This property should only be used in conjunction with domain authentication when the DNS PTR record for a monitored server's managed IP address does not resolve to the name by which the server is known in Active Directory. For example, if myserver1 is known as myserver1.ad.example.com by Active Directory and is being managed by IP address 192.51.100.21, but 192.51.100.21 resolves to www.example.com, you will have to set zWinRMServerName to myserver1.ad.example.com for domain authentication to work.

If many Windows servers in your environment do not have DNS PTR records that match Active Directory, it is recommended that you set the name of the Resource Manager device to be the fully-qualified Active Directory name and set zWinRMServerName to ${here/titleOrId} at the /Server/Microsoft/Windows device class. This avoids the necessity of setting zWinRMServerName on every device.

It is recommended to leave zWinRMServerName blank if local authentication is used, or DNS PTR records match Active Directory. This allows Resource Manager to not rely on DNS resolution while monitoring, and avoids the overhead of configuring zWinRMServerName.
zWinRMUser string The syntax used for zWinRMUser controls whether Resource Manager will attempt Windows local authentication or domain (Kerberos) authentication. If the value of zWinRMUser is username, local Windows authentication will be used. If zWinRMUser is username@example.com, domain authentication will be used. The zWinKDC and potentially the zWinRMServerName properties become important.
zWinRSCodePage int Code page used by monitoring user account.
zWinScheme string Must be set to http or https. Default value is http.
zWinTrustedKDC string Windows Trusted KDC.
zWinTrustedRealm string Windows Trusted Realm.
zWinUseWsmanSPN boolean Set to true if HTTP/HTTPS service principles are exclusively for use by a particular service account.
zWSMANPassword password Password for WSMAN user name.
zWSMANPort int The port number used to gather WSMAN information. Defaults to 443.
zWSMANUseSSL boolen True or false value to use SSL. Default value is true.
zWSMANUsername string WSMAN user name.