Tips, Templates and Guides for the Zabbix Monitoring Platform
It 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…
Leave a 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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