How To Add To Components View?

[Peter Shankland]

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Hi, brand new to Zenoss so apologies if the following is a noob questions :)

I have just started adding a load of HP ProCurve switches to Zenoss and because I want to graph things such as CPU and Memory usage, I have created a new monitoring template and attached it to the /Network/Switches folder (or whatever this is called).

I thought this was fine but have just looked at the ZenPack for Juniper devices and the person who has created this has managed to add a load of new views to the Components view of the device over the standard ones --> http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-10328 http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-10328<--

This is something I would really like to look at as want to pull out information from my ProCurve switches such as firmware versions etc, not something you would use a monitor template for.

Am not asking how you do this but would appreciate a nod in the right direction :)

Thanks.

Pete.

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This would be done by snagging that particular ZenPack and ripping it apart and rebuilding it for the Procurve switches you are using.  Thats about the only somewhat "quick" option I am aware of.
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Thanks for the reply but do you know of the 'correct' way to go about creating these new device components rather than a quick way. The ZenPack author must have created them in the first place somehow :)

Thanks.
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Sorry to bump but anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks.
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You should start with reading up on developing zenpacks. I believe the two most useful documents are:
1) http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/jane/zenpacks/zenpacks3.pdf http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/jane/zenpacks/zenpacks3.pdf
2) http://community.zenoss.org/community/documentation/official_documentation/zenoss-dev-guide http://community.zenoss.org/community/documentation/official_documentation/zenoss-dev-guide

In a nutshell you need to model and relate the components to the device. Its a fairly popular thing done in zenpacks that do more than just provide a monitoring template. I'd suggest reading Jane's doc as it does a really good job of easing into how its done.
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Thanks for the reply - looks as though I have some reading to do!! :)
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