New Zenoss 4 Desktop Tray client

[Justin Miller]

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Hello Everyone,

About two weeks ago I began searching for a desktop client for Zenoss 4 similar to Nagstamon for Nagios (plays noises when something triggers and has summary lists of current status).

I discovered no such thing existed yet.

This has led me and a friend to make one. I open sourced the code and loaded an installer for Windows here.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenstamon/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenstamon/

I will be working on a Linux port that should come out within the next two weeks. As well as additional functionality like right cliking and clearing/acking events.

Hope this can be useful for everyone else and not just my team.

Thanks,
mageru

PS: Please let me know what you think and/or leave suggestions. It is still in alpha.
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[Justin Miller]

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So.. anyone try it out yet ? We have added the abillity to change polling times and fixed a few bugs.
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Just gave this a shot this AM. Ran into some issues:
1) The file I download implies version .9 (Zenstamon_.9_setup), however the add/remove programs entry reflects .8
2) Upon initial launch it came up fine, I filled in server and log information, and I never got event information displayed. I tried changing from FQDN of the server to the IP Address same result
3) Thought maybe I needed to restart the application to get the settings to take effect, however after closign it I'm unable to launch it again. Watching process monitor, I can see the exe fires up, and then vanishes right away. There are no visible clues on screen as to what went wrong. Doesnt appear there are any event log entries, nor do I see a log file on disk. If there is some way to flip a switch and get some additional information, let me know and I will do so
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Thanks for the info!

1) Will get that fixed quick.
2) I am not sure what could be blocking it from working, will try to get better debug put in. We have been running it in python directly and adding print statements to debug (pretty immature still sorry).

The app creates a file in c:\users\$username\zenstamon.cnf  - if it is crashing immediately on start try removing this file. Will try to make this a cleaner process and thanks for your help!
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Removing the file did indeed allow me to relaunch it, however after populating the info again (This time with IP right from the start, still go no events). Closed it again, and once again it failed to launch (had to delete the .cnf file)

In case it helps I'm on Windows 7 Enterprise (Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600])
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[Justin Miller]

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A new version has been posted with some logging put in. Should create a .log file in the installation folder.
We have not been able to get it to fail to connect so I would be very interested on what the contents have.
Definately want to get the issue solved. Thanks for your help!
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Hey Justin cool app, here are a couple of things i noticed running on Windows 8 64bit

You must right click on the application and install as Administrator.  (being an admin and running it will error out)

Host, Status and Message work fine, but when i add first, last seen and count, the coloumns do not appear.  I made sure to hit save and quit the app and reopen it with no luck.

I am running Zenoss 4.2 SP1

Great job B-)
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Thanks for the input Randy!
I will address the requiring admin thing. I thought I had fixed that but maybe just need alittle bit more configuration with inno setup (the tool im using to create the installer).

Sorry about the other columns not working quite yet. We added those as a menu option before we actually implemented the functionality. Will get a version out that does not have them in the config menu until they are actually working.

Any features you feel like it could use? We are thinking, extra columns with more info, and right click ackknowledge/remove for events.
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I mean it’s a pretty great straight forward alerting tool.

Now, if you could somehow put in the functionality of being able to acknowledge and clear an alarm that would be amazing!

As far as graphical ease on the eye, maybe include the icon on the left hand side of host, for example if it’s a cisco trap, you will see the little switch icon next to the alert, and perhaps you can have the option to sort by type.

And maybe the option of selecting a couple of colors, like blue green, zebra J

Great Job Justin
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Thanks for the feedback Randy!

We have added the functionality to be able to clear the alarm (as of version 1.0) by right clicking on it and clicking delete. Will be probobly changing that from Delete to Clear. Will also be adding a "Clear All" option in the summary.

All of the config options for columns are now also working. Will be looking at custom colors and sounds soon. Not sure what would be involved for icons but maybe we can pull that off also.

I just uploaded the new version to sourceforge so it should be available.

One of the next primary focuses after getting this core functionality down will be creating a linux distrib. Then will look at further customization.
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Great let me install the new client!!!  I'll keep you updated
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