On 12/20/12, Charles N Wyble <charles-lists@knownelement.com> wrote:
Zenoss works very well as a cmdb.
Zenoss is very visually appealing, but a monitoring system for network hosts, not a CMDB. In particular, except through extensive custom programming, I see no mechanism to manage CIs with it or query for facts... Zenoss doesn't seem to have any way you can represent or, query, or model a fact that a certain IP address terminates in Vlan X, on device Y, with default gateway IP G that has NSAP ID H, and device Y lives in building A room 1 aisle 2 rack 4 rack slot number 5, fed by breakers 186 and 237, with upstream Ethernet cable ID #G296R plugged into port 39 on patch panel 2, which lands on Switch K port Gig8/44. Networks have many "items of importance" that are not hosts, also, and are not readily modelled using SNMP. -- -JH