The document discusses several monitoring tools like Nagios, collectd, and Ganglia and notes their lack of automation plugins and APIs. It then introduces Zenoss as a holistic monitoring solution with powerful plugins and APIs that can monitor various cloud platforms, hypervisors, and provide dashboards. Finally, it lists some resources for getting started with Zenoss including documentation, community forums, and code repositories.

1. State of Affairs
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Nagios, collectd, Ganglia, Splunk, Logstash
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lack of APIs, lack of automation plugins
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low level
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boss and frontlines?
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2. Why Zenoss
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holistic
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something for everyone
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powerful plugins (ZenPacks)
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APIs
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3. Dashboard
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6. Cloud Landscape
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Hypervisors: ESX, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V*...
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Platforms: cloudstack, OpenStack,
vCloud/vSphere
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XaaS: AWS, Cloud Foundry
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7. Cloudstack ZenPack
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network usage, memory usage, IP space
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native API
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all the extras
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12. Starting & Resources
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http://docs.zenoss.org/
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http://community.zenoss.org/community/zenpacks
(Google ZenPacks)
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http://github.com/zenoss
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http://community.zenoss.org/community/download
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