The Zenoss Event Management System is a consolidation of status information from all parts of the Zenoss system as well as external systems. When a Zenoss monitoring daemon detects a failure or threshold breach events are generated. This is similar to most other monitoring systems available. Zenoss does more in that it also takes event import from other parts of the IT infrastructure. These include Syslog and SNMP Traps. Its one thing to bring the events into a single repository but an event management system must do more. As events are received Zenoss runs them through a set of rules that augment the information they contain and integrate them with the Zenoss Model.