Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
On 07-Apr-06, 08:01 (CDT), Wolfgang Lonien <wolfgang@lonien.de> wrote:
> * Package name : zenoss
> Version : x.y.z
Need version number (I realize that this may be moving target right now,
just don't want to forget it in the final.)
> Upstream Author : Erik Dahl <edahl@zenoss.org>
> * URL : http://www.zenoss.org/
> * License : GPL Version 2
> Programming Lang: Python
> Description : Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
Don't use the package name in the short description - they'll always be
displayed together in the normal tools.
The short description needs to be less than a line to display with the
normal tools, and since it's widely used for searching, probably doesn't
need meaningless advertising words like "powerful", "integrated", and
"easy-to-use". Perhaps;
Description: network infrastucture monitoring and alerting tool
> Zenoss provides a compelling alternative to:
> * low-end commerical monitoring tools that provide limited
> functionality and scaleability (e.g What's Up Gold...)
> * high-end commercial packages that are notoriously expensive and
> complicated (e.g. IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, HP OpenView...)
> * building an integrated, scalable open source solution yourself by
> pulling together many component projects
>
Yes, but what does it *do*? SNMP monitoring? Network service monitoring?
Local resource (e.g. diskspace or CPU usage) monitoring? Alert
by e-mail, or pager, or IM? Web based? How is it configured? Any
autodetection capabilities?
Please save the marketing nonsense for the upstream website, and provide
the Debian users with enough info to determine if the tool is something
they might be able to use.
Steve
--
Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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