Tips, Templates and Guides for the Zabbix Monitoring Platform
Most Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Debian etc.) offer the ability to bond multiple networks devices together into Bonding Interfaces, using the bonding kernel module. Bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, which as a result can provide redundancy and additional bandwidth. The Linux bonding kernel module…
15 CommentsPowerDNS is a high-performance DNS server and recursor written in C++ and Zabbix can easily keep track of how it’s doing! It runs on most Unix variants. It features a large number of different back-ends ranging from simple BIND style zone files to relational databases and load balancing/failover algorithms. A…
3 CommentsMost companies have a wide variety of services running, usually with public and private facing interfaces. If you are providing services like SMTP, DNS or similar to your customers, those services might be misused and you could end up getting your servers IP addresses blacklisted on various Domain Name System…
22 CommentsIt is extremely important to monitor network services and their connectivity. At any given time, there’s hundreds, if not thousands, of services running on your servers. Many of those have to be reachable over a network. Web services need to be available typically on port 80 and/or 443, FTP services…
1 CommentThis is the template and instructions for monitoring HP Smart Array controllers as well as physical and logical drives attached to them. ESXi can be quite a hassle to monitor properly but you can get very far using Zabbix SSH checks. Requirements VMware ESXi 5.x or newer installed, using HPE…
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