I first made the Download Section for members only, just cause I wanted an idea on who is downloading the software I have written. Now, I no longer care who downloads it, as long as it helps out the people who did download it. That is all that matters. Though the forums section, does require you to be a member. I also recognize, most people are members of enough websites, that becoming a member of another one, can be over bearing.

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I've come to realize, that CIM is the new SNMP, but on steroids. Most new SAN, NAS, Network, and Operating Systems now support CIM/WBEM. To me it is easier to gather statistics and information through CIM, then it is through SNMP. In this article I am going to give you a script that will allow you to query the 3par for Disk IO stats. You will be able to grab Disk IO stats on a per Volume, per Port, or per Disk basis.You will also be able to search for a Volume, Port, or Disk, instead of just dumping all the Volumes, Ports, or Disk.

Before you download this script, you will need to download pywbem from sourceforge and install it. .

Download Get 3par Disk IO Stats

File Title: Get 3par Disk IO Stats (Details) File Type: py File Version: 0.0.10 File Size: 4.73 Kb License: File Author: Allen Sanabria File HomePage: Downloads: 31 Rating:  ( Votes) Your Vote: ?12345

All the data that you get from the script, must be saved as a COUNTER and not a GAUGE.

Here is an example of searching for statistics by DISK for DISK 2:6:1..

python get3parIOstats.py -u "http://3par" -a 'login passwd' -s '2:6:1' --disk
OK|2:6:1_ReadIOs=67236384 2:6:1_WriteIOs=28457131 2:6:1_TotalIOs=95693515

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Good Afternoon my fellow Zenoss users. here I bring you another Python tool to use with Zenoss. This tool will allow you to list all of your alerting rules, either by Group, User, or Query. If you are like me and have over 100 Alerting Rules. Managing these rules are more then a pain in the butt. Especially when you create a new rule and you know you created it correctly, but it just does not work... Well you might have another conflicting rule. Well what do you do in this situation?? You can go through each rule manually and sooner or later you will find it.

Or you can use my tool to find it for you. You might ask... How will yout tool find the conflicting rule for me??? Well to be honest it will not find the rule for you. What it can do is search all the rules for a certain query. Which can return one or more alerting rules if they are similiar in nature. or you can have the tool, list all of your Alerting rules. Or you can have the script list all of your alerting rules by group or user. The toll will report back to you The Group/User, The Alerting Rules attached to that Group/user, and the Schedules Attached to that Alerting Rules.

Where this tool really helped me, was when the DST changed happened. None of my schedules were working anymore, so the work around is to move all the schedules ahead of time. Using this script I found all my schedules very quickly, with out haveing to go through each of my alerting rules one by one.

Download Zenoss Alerting Rule Manager

File Title: Zenoss Alerting Rule Manager (Details) File Type: py File Version: 0.0.1 File Size: 7.26 Kb License: File Author: Allen Sanabria File HomePage: Downloads: 52 Rating:  ( Votes) Your Vote: ?12345

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I've seen a few people in the Zenoss community forums asking for an easier way to add multiple Datapoints into Zenoss, instead of adding 1 by 1. Well, I've decided to try and build such a tool today. Now even though the tool is not complete (IN MY EYES). It is already has been helpful to me! As of right now the script can List Templates in a Organizer ( aka /Devices/Server/Linux ) or in a Device ( zenoss1.linuxdynasty ).

It can also create a Template, with a Command DataSource, with Multiple DataPoints. This means you can now automate the creation of Templates and DataSources and DataPoints. So if you are using a tool like Puppet, Cfengine, Bcfg2, or Chef, this process can be automated. I will be adding more features in the next few weeks.

Any question or help about this script, please post them here http://www.linuxdynasty.org/forums/Scripting/scripting/ZenossTemplateManager
UPDATES!!!!!!

• Update 1.0.6, Fixed an issue where if youdo not pass the -G option for graph it will fail.
• Update 1.0.5, Now have the ability to add multiple graphs with multiple datapoints
• Update 1.0.4, Now have the ability to create thresholds, bind templates to class or device, set severities on thresholds and
  datasources, attach datapoints to thresholds.
• Update 1.0.3, I broke down the templateManager function into 3 smaller functions. You also can now list templates and datasources for either device or organizer, and list datapoints for a device. I also added more verbosity with the -V option.
• Update 1.0.2, You now do not have to pass a command with the script. So i f you already have a command in the DataSource, it wll not get overwritten.. Thank you Eangel, for telling me about this issue..

Upcoming Features such as....

• Deleteing Templates, DataSources, and DataPoints
• Copying Templates
• Adding Graphs

The tool is called Zenoss_Template_Manager.py. You can download it here..

Download Zenoss_Template_Manager

File Title: Zenoss_Template_Manager (Details) File Type: py File Version: 1.0.6 File Size: 15.32 Kb License: File Author: Allen Sanabria File HomePage: Downloads: 107 Rating:  ( Votes) Your Vote: ?12345

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Recently I had to prepare for a Zenoss upgrade. During my prep work I had to create a zenpack of all of our Templates. For those of you who use Zenoss, you know how many templates you can start to accumulate in a short amount of time. You can have Templates attached to single Devices, to SubClasses, and to Classes. Now if you have a few devices this is not a big deal. But if you have a couple hundred to a couple of thousand devices, this could be a real hassle.

Now you can take a ton of your time and review Class by Class and Device by Device until you finally finish. You will eventually get it all in a Zenpack....... Well lucky for you guys I created a Python Script that runs as the Zenoss user and create a Zenpack for you. All you have to do is pick a name for the ZenPack and optionally the Device Class you want to scan. The script will scan the Device Class that you specified ( or by default scan the entire /Device Class and its Sub Classes). It will then create the ZenPack with all the locally attached Device Templates. I am thinking of also adding the Events class as part of the next release of this script.

Update 1.0.1, I added the --unique option. If you decide to use this option, This Zenpack will only add, The Device Templates that are not already part of an existing ZenPack. I also added the --verbose option, so that you can see which Device Templates are being added or being dismissed.

You can download the script here

Download Create ZenPack

File Title: Create ZenPack (Details) File Type: py File Version: 1.0.1 File Size: 6.44 Kb License: File Author: Allen Sanabria File HomePage: Downloads: 77 Rating:  ( Votes) Your Vote: ?12345

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