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Floyd StrimlingTechnology Evangelist

Sr. Director Marketing & Community

May 10, 2012

Citrix SynergyBuild A Cloud Day: Core 4

Transforming IT Operations

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Agenda

• Brief Introduction to Zenoss

• Zenoss Architecture

• Brief Demonstration

• Where do you get it?

• Questions and Answers

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Zenoss at a Glance

Cool Vendor inIT Operations 2010

Best Monitoring Toolfor the Cloud

Leading Commercial Open Source Player in Category• Large Global Footprint: 2M Downloads, 35K Organizations, 175

Countries• Large Active Community: 100K Members

Fastest Growing Enterprise Management Software Company

• 2010 and 2011 Inc 500• 2011 #22 on Deloitte Fast 500

Most Widely Adopted Cloud Management Console• Unifies physical, virtual & cloud monitoring• Enables public, private and hybrid cloud scenarios

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What is Agility?

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are

useless, but planning is indispensable.”

~Dwight Eisenhower

“The power of moving quickly and easily; nimbleness: exercises

demanding agility”~Dictionary.com

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What is Chaos?

“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion

in our minds.”~George Santayana

(Philosopher)

“A state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order.”

~Dictionary.com

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What is Cloud?

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FrankenMonitor

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Single Pane of Glass

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It’s All About Perspective

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Zenoss: The Basics

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LinuxRed Hat, CentOS

Stay Tuned

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Zenoss Core 4 Architecture

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Agentless Multi-protocol

ResourceModel

UnifiedPresentation

Layer

CommonMessagingPlatform

Web CLI

IntegrationRESTAMQPJSON

Mobile RBAC

CollectionCollection

Metrics

Service CatalogProvisioning

CMDBOrchestrationService Desk

BillingOther Managers

CommonExtensibilityFramework"ZenPack"

Discovery & Modeling Collection Notification &

Control

HTTPTCPSNMPWMI SSH ICMP SMTP/POPREST SOAPWEBMSMSJMXWIN-RPC ODBC

CloudStack OpenStack Cloud Foundry

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Core 4: Powerful Enhancements

• RabbitMQ/AMQP Compatible

• Extended JSON API / REST API for Querying Events

• RelStorage, ExtJS 4, Improvements to zenperfsnmp

• New Zenoss Event Processing Engine

• IPv6 and SNMP v3

• New Collector Framework

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DEMO

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Where to Get Zenoss?

CORE Software

• http://community.zenoss.org

Additional ZenPacks

• http://gitub.com/zenoss

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THANK YOU QUESTIONS & ANSWERSEmail: floyd@zenoss.com

Twitter: @platenreport

Slides Available: http://slideshare.net/zenoss