Additional tutorial idea

[ssbunyk]

My company is developing custom ZenPack. We will monitor some cloud services with the help of it REST API. Probably we will use PythonCollector DataSource class for collecting data.

I'm having hard time going thought your tutorial, because it is moderately long and there are not so much visible results (RRD graphs, for example). Other problem is that I have almost no experience of monitoring devices and literally no experience of SNMP.

May be it would be good idea to create tutorial which also uses temperature sensors, but device is some weather station, and data is gathered from, for example (http://api.openweathermap.org/)? That will help those ZenPack developers who are not very experienced sysadmins.

I'm thinking about creating such a tutorial by myself after I finally find out how to make our ZenPack, but I thought that if you find my idea worth implementing, you could create such tutorial faster.

Anyway, thank you for your time.

[cluther]

I agree that it would be a good addition. Although I was planning on adding command-based collection either via SSH or not first.

For now I'd recommend taking a look at the example ZenPacks listed at the following URL.
http://wiki.zenoss.org/ZenPack_Development_Guide

CloudFoundry, CloudStack, oVirt and AWS are all examples of ZenPacks that monitor a web service of some sort.