Zenoss NotesRevisionas of Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 19:56 UTC

Pre-Flight

• SNMP is UDP on port 161
• Zenoss provides a lot of useful
  documentation.
• The following ports need to be allowed to the server:

Installation

Zenoss Server

Note: Zenoss does not like special characters in the MySQL root
password.

 # Install necessary packages; MySQL and net-snmp are required
 yum -y install mysql-server net-snmp net-snmp-utils gmp libgomp libgcj liberation-fonts
 
 # Configure MySQL
 
 # Install Zenoss
 mkdir zenoss.temp; cd zenoss.temp
 wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenoss/zenoss-3.2.0.el5.i386.rpm
 rpm -ivh zenoss-3.2.0.el5.i386.rpm
 service zenoss start

This sets up everything. Go get some tea; this shall take a
while. Then navigate to http://<FQDN>:8080 to finish setup. This
book
is your friend, friend.

Uninstallation

Navigate to the directory where Zenoss was installed.

 [root@zenoss zenoss]# ./uninstall

Miscellaneous

• Edit /opt/zenoss/etc/zope.conf and edit the address under
  <http-server>.
• Don’t change the default directory (/usr/local/zenoss)
• Changed zSnmpVer to v2c under “Configuration Properties” for Device
  Class
• Reinstalled Zenoss for HDD monitoring
• A most excellent overview of
  SNMP.
  This is probably all you need to get started.
• Change admin password like so:

 su - zenoss
 /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/bin/zenpass

• If you have a non-default port, your email alerts will still use the
  default (8080). To change this, edit $ZENHOME/etc/zenactions.conf,
  add a line like so, and restart Zenoss

 zopeurl      http://servername.tld:9090

Category:Installation Logs
Category:Nikhil’s Notes
Category:From a past sysadmin
life