Extended Monitoring Guide
The Multi-Realm IP ZenPack functionality extends core modeling, monitoring, and event management in Zenoss to allow for overlapping IP spaces. With this ZenPack, Zenoss can prefix a realm identifier to the IP addresses on a given network to differentiate these addresses in Zenoss.
There are two primary use cases for using multi-realm IP management.
A large company that manages multiple locations that have the same network spaces defined across these multiple locations and as a result have created multiple overlapping IP spaces and Zenoss needs a way to identify each separate IP space in the system.
Service Providers responsible for monitoring multiple customers where the customers have created independent networks and IP spaces that are unique to their location, but not unique to the Service Provider.
The essential workflow for creating and using IP Realms is that first you need to create the IP realms and then associate these realms with a collector. The associations between IP Realms and actual devices is made automatically by the device's association with the collector. All devices on a collector are associated with the realm for that collector.
Note
The Multi-Realm IP ZenPack is available only by separate download from the Zenoss Support site.
After downloading the ZenPack, you must install it manually. In the Zenoss interface, go to Settings > Zenpacks > Install Zenpack.