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Zenoss + Munin plugins

Using Zenoss with Munin plugins I have started using Zenoss as a possible network/server monitoring alternative to using Nagios / Munin to monitor our network. I have started the Zenoss implementation but I am looking to extend what Zenoss can monitor. Munin has worked well for producing graphs of the systems, but it would be nice to integrate the functionality that Munin has into Zenoss and create a Zenpack that will monitor and graph all available Munin plugins running on a munin -client host. This would be really nice as our hosts already have the munin-node setup. I'm going to start with the Admin Guide to writing a ZenCommand and seeing if I can put together a script for Zenmodeler that will fetch the available plugins , the the info it needs about the plugin and start monitoring/graphing the service. I found a great Nagios plugin check_ munin to use to fetch the data from the host as a good example of getting the data from the node. I may rewrite i...