Tag Archives: Windows

Secure Windows Monitoring with Zenoss

Starting with version 2.3.x, Zenoss can monitor computers running Microsoft Windows with a variety of data collection protocols: SNMP, WMI over DCOM/MS-RPC and Perfmon over MS-RPC. In Zenoss Core, the status of Windows services and the Windows Event Log are monitored using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries over the DCOM/MS-RPC protocol. In the implementation of …

April 7, 2009 – 5:50 pm | By chadwick | Posted in Jobs, Software Development, Technology, Zenoss | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Oddities in Gathering Windows Performance Data

At Zenoss we do quite a bit of remote monitoring of computers running Windows. In the Enterprise edition of the product, we collect raw performance counter data using the conventional remote Windows Registry APIs. We ran into an issue recently with a customer running Windows 2000 where the data from the remote server was being …

February 17, 2009 – 8:39 pm | By chadwick | Posted in Jobs, Software Development, Technology, Zenoss | Tagged , , | Comments (0)