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Open Source Enterprise Monitoring: The Next Step in IT Management

Zenoss provides an integrated, easy-to-deploy and cost-effective alternative to the big suites from IBM, HP, CA and BMC for enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring.

For years, organizations (especially medium-sized companies) have struggled to manage their growing IT infrastructures because powerful management tools were very complicated and extremely expensive. Zenoss is changing the game.

Through open source development and distribution, we are able to keep costs down and directly involve end users throughout the world. The result is that we have changed the economics of delivering great software and we ensure that the product stays aligned with the real needs of IT operators. In effect, we are bringing the "Zen of Open Source" to enterprise network and systems management.

Zenoss is designed to operate on any modern Unix system with a sufficient GNU build environment. For now it is known to work on at least the following platforms:
Linux
RedHat Enterprise
Fedora Core
Ubuntu
Suse
FreeBSD
Mac OS X

*Zenoss is also able to be installed and run in a Windows environment. This is accomplished using the VMplayer from vmware.com, and the Zenoss Virtual Appliance. For more information about installing Zenoss using the VMplayer, see the Zenoss Quick Start Guide.