Table of Contents

1. About Event Monitoring In Zenoss

2. Event Concepts

2.1. Event Life Cycle

2.2. De-duplication

2.3. Begin-End Correlation

3. Zenoss Event Console

3.1. Viewing Event Details

4. Generating and Sending a Test Event

4.1. Sending Events from the Command Line

5. Event Classes

5.1. Creating a New Event Class

6. Event Manager Settings

6.1. Accessing Event Manager Settings

6.2. Changing Event Database Connection Information

6.3. Changing Cache Settings for the Event Manager

6.4. Change the Maintenance Settings for the Event Manager

7. Acknowledging Events

8. Moving Events To History

9. Clearing The Event History

10. Event Class Mapping

11. Applying Event and Device Context Using Event zProperties

12. Mapping Events Through the UI

13. Using Mappings to Correlate Events

14. Event Commands

14.1. Create an Event Command Example

14.2. Test the Event Command

15. SNMP Traps and Event Transforms

15.1. SNMP Trap Mapping

15.2. Sending Test Traps

15.3. Transforming Events with Event Mappings

15.4. Event Transforms Based on Device Class

16. Custom Event Views

17. Use ZenMail and ZenPop to Turn Email Messages into Zenoss Events

17.1. ZenMail

17.2. ZenPop

17.3. How Zenoss Translates Various Message Elements to the Event

17.3.1. How Zenoss uses the FROM field

17.3.2. How Zenoss uses the TO Field

17.3.3. How Zenoss uses the SUBJECT Field

17.3.4. How Zenoss uses the Message Body