Throughout this chapter, we've seen several specific examples of zProperties, but there are many properties that impact how we monitor. The following table lists the device zProperties along with a brief description of the property. The zProperties are accessible via the Configuration Properties link at the device or class level.
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Set the collector timeout in seconds. The default value is 180 seconds. |
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Specify the character encoding. The default is latin-1. |
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Set to true to log changes and false to not log changes to the collector. |
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Click the Edit link to open the collector plugin selection page. |
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Time in seconds to wait for a command to finish. The default is 15. |
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Specifies a time in seconds to cycle through zCommands. The default is 60. |
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Test to see if a command exists on the monitored device. The default is 'test -f %s'. |
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Wait the specified number of seconds for a login prompt to display. The default is 10. |
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Attempt to log in to the remote sever the specified number of times. The default is 1. |
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Enter the password for the user's shell account on the monitored device. |
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When you specify a command, Zenoss Core searches the specified path for the command. You can enter fully-qualified commands here. |
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The port the monitored system uses for remote connections. The default is 22 for SSH. Specify 23 for telnet. |
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Specify the protocol to use (Telnet, SSH). The default is SSH. |
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Not currently used. |
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Enter the user name for the remote device. |
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Enter the templates by name to use in order to display information. The default is device. |
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Enter the names of the file systems to ignore. For example: |
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Specify the file systems you want Zenoss Core to ignore. |
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Adjust the file system capacity values reported by Net-SNMP. Useful when the Linux server and Net-SNMP report different capacities. |
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A regular expression to match the names of hard disks. |
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Each device class has a default icon that can be changed as necessary. |
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Displays the interface description on the Interfaces table of the OS tab. Select either true or false. The default is false. |
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Enter the names of the interfaces to ignore. For example: lo. |
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Enter the type of interfaces to ignore. For example: local loopback. |
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Specify the maximum port number to port scan. The default is 1024. |
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Specify the path to the user's public key file for use with public-key authentication. |
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Enter HTML or TALES expressions to display content on the device's status page. For example, you can create a link to a router's administration console that will display on the Device Status page. |
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A regular expression match to identify local interface names. The default expression looks for lo (loopback) and vmnet (VMware). |
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A regular expression match to identify local IP address. |
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Specify the number of OIDs Zenoss collects with a single query. The default is 40. |
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Specify the options to use for the |
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Select true to not ping the device or false to ping the device. |
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Monitor a service that is higher than the production state listed. Possible values include 1000 (Production), 500 (Pre-Production), 400 (Test), 300 (Maintenance), and -1 (Decommissioned). |
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Not currently used. |
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Set to true to collect only the indirect routes. Default is false. |
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Set to true to collect only the local routes. Default is false. |
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Specify the maximum number of routes to map. The default is 500. |
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Specify SNMP password, if applicable. |
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If using |
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List of communities Zenoss tries to collect information for. The defaults are public and private. Enter more as needed. |
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The default community name on the monitored device. |
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Set whether or not Zenoss should monitor the device with SNMP. Defaults to false. |
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The SNMP communication port. It defaults to port 161. |
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Enter the security user's password. |
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Select either AES or DES encryption. |
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Enter the security user's name. |
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Length of time in seconds that Zenoss waits for a response from the remote SNMP agent. Defaults to 2.5. |
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Number of times Zenoss tries to connect via SNMP before reporting a failure. |
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The version of SNMP. Available options are 1, 2c, and 3. Defaults to 1. |
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Set the number of concurrent SSH sessions that Zenoss Core will make. The default is 10. |
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Specifies the time in seconds for an IP service to respond before the service is marked as down. The default is 15. |
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Not currently used. |
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On Cisco routers, send the enable command to enable command collection. Default is false. |
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Match the enable prompt with the specified regular expression. |
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Match the login prompt with the specified regular expression. |
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Match the password prompt with the specified regular expression. |
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Specify the time in seconds to wait for the login prompt to display. |
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Match the command prompt with the specified regular expression. |
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Select true to enable Telnet terminal length. |
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Specifies whether or not Zenoss collects the Windows event log. Default is false. |
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Collect all Windows event logs that match the specified severity. Enter a value between 1 and 5, where 1 is the most severe. The default is 2. |
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Enter the Windows user's password. |
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Enter the username of an account on the monitored Windows system. |
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Set to true to ignore WMI monitoring and set to false to monitor WMI services. |
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Set to true to enable XML/RPC monitoring. |
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