Zino Is Not OpenView. Zino is an SNMP network based monitor that began its life at Uninett in the mid 1990s. It was a home-grown system written in Tcl, specifically to monitor the state of the routers of the Norwegian national research network (NREN). This is a re-implementation of the server side of this system in Python. Here's a quote about its features from the README file of the original Tcl codebase and which is re-implemented here: o Trap-driven polling; receives and interprets traps. o Periodic status polling (by default low frequency). o A simplistic event handling system. o A simple SMTP-like client/server protocol. Development of Zino 2.0 is fully sponsored by NORDUnet, on behalf of all the nordic NRENs.