Notes on Zenoss ZenPacks

Recently I was building a ZenPack for Zenoss. The ZenPack included an Event Command which executed a custom script. I wanted to store the custom script in the ZenPack and I didn’t want to do anything other than have proper script dependencies in place for it to work.

${here/ZenPackManager/packs/ZenPacks.community.YOURZENPACK/path}/libexec/yourscript.sh  ${dev/manageIp}

Custom scripts can be placed in $ZENHOME/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.CompanyName.Package/Zenpacks/CompanyName/Package/lib but if you want them to be executable place them in libexec.

Thanks to Matt Ray for telling me how to properly path the Event Command and the note about scripts in libexec getting the executable bit set, the docs I found only specified the lib directory.