Tips, Templates and Guides for the Zabbix Monitoring Platform
PowerDNS 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 CommentsThe entire purpose of monitoring, is making sure your systems and services are functioning as expected. As expected to who though? The point of view matters quite a bit here, both to a potential service end-user and to you as an administrator of said service. Take a classic LAMP setup…
Leave a CommentThis guide covers easily installing Zabbix 3.0 on CentOS 7 with a MySQL database back-end. No fuzz, just the basics to get things up and running. Recently Zabbix 3.0 was released and with it came a ton of great new features as well as an overhaul of the web UI…
12 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 CommentYou’ve done it before, every Zabbix user has. You’ve added an item directly to a host and later re-created that item on another host, and then another, and another… You should’ve used templates from the beginning! Even though you’re only adding one item to one host, you might as well…
Leave a CommentYou’re monitoring many hosts at many remote locations. A link to a location dies and to you and your Zabbix Server, everything is offline at the location! Zabbix Proxies to the rescue! Zabbix Server ↔ Zabbix Proxy ↔ Host To ensure consistent data gathering, you can utilize Zabbix Proxies. Proxies…
Leave a 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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