We are working on a project to improve the reliability, performance and features of native Windows monitoring in Zenos Core and Resource Manager. The foundation of this project is a Python library named txwinrm. txwinrm allows for asynchronously managing Windows using the WinRM and WinRS services. This library will be used by Zenoss to do automatic discovery and monitoring in the new and improved Windows-monitoring ZenPack.
Right now we're trying to get as much real world experience using the library as possible to prove out the reliability and performance improvements we're hoping to achieve. If you have access to Windows servers, you can help! It doesn't even require a Zenoss Core installation as this tool stands alone right now.
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Instructions for installing on Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS (Python 2.7.3)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install gcc python-dev libkrb5-dev krb5-user python-setuptools
# if prompted for your kerberos realm, leave it blank and choose OK
sudo easy_install txwinrm
# if you want to use a Windows domain
sudo genkrb5conf <windows domain> <domain controller IP address>
# now you can run the txwinrm commands (winrm, winrs, typeperf, and wecutil)
Instructions for installing on Centos 6.3 x86_64 (Python 2.6.6)
# as root
yum -y install gcc python-devel krb5-devel krb5-workstation python-setuptools
easy_install txwinrm
# if you want to use a Windows domain
genkrb5conf <windows domain> <domain controller IP address>
# now you can run the txwinrm commands (winrm, winrs, typeperf, and wecutil) as a normal user