This is a shortened howto for configuring Zenoss on Ubuntu 10.04.

Preparation:
Mysql must have non empty root password.


apt-get install build-essential autoconf swig
apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
apt-get install python-dev
apt-get install svn-buildpackage

adduser zenoss
mkdir /usr/local/zenoss
chown zenoss /usr/local/zenoss

visudo  (loads sudo editor – nano in this case - add the following 2 lines)
zenoss monitor = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/zenoss/bin/*,/bin/kill
Defaults env_keep += "PYTHONPATH ZENHOME"

su zenoss
cd ~

nano  .bashrc
Append:
export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss
export PYTHONPATH=$ZENHOME/lib/python
export PATH=$ZENHOME/bin:$PATH

#Get latest url from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/files/
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/files/zenoss-3.1/zenoss-3.1.0/zenoss-3.1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf zenoss*.gz
cd zenoss*
./install.sh
zenoss restart

Go to http://localhost:8080/zport/dmd
Username:admin


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Zenoss