Zenoss zencommand

zencommand run -d device -v10
zentestcommand -d device --datasource=cpu -v10 -t10

• https://zcaportal.org/wiki/bin/view/ZCA/ZCABestPractices#Testing_Command_based_data_sources
• http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-7752
• http://community.zenoss.org/thread/20092
• http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-4724#Use_SSH_seems_to_be_broken_when_I_test_it

SSH

ssh root@MachineB 'bash -s' < local_script.sh

For a script that requires sudo:
ssh root@MachineB 'echo "rootpass" | sudo -Sv && bash -s' < local_script.sh

ZenDMD

Print commands of device

d = find('device')
print d.id, d.title, d.manageIp
for t in d.getRRDTemplates():
    for ds in t.datasources():
        print ds.getCommand(d)

Alternative

• http://wiki.zenoss.org/ZenPack:PythonCollector