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Zabbix is an open source monitoring software

Zabbix is an open source monitoring software. At the core sits a server daemon, written in C and gathered data can be accessed by using a PHP frontend. Zabbix provides binary agents for most platforms and may store both configuration and gathered values in MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 databases.

See the official homepage or Wikipedia entry for more information.

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using zabbix to monitor vmware datastores

The current vmware infrastructure is a mix of ESX and ESXi at 3, 3.5 and 4.1 releases. What I would like to achieve is being able to monitore the free space of the datastores through zabbix which is our current monitoring solution. Is there a way of…
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Choosing a monitoring system for a dynamically scaling environment: Nagios v. Zabbix

When operating in the cloud and scaling boxes automatically, there are certain monitoring issues that one experiences. Sometimes we might be monitoring 10 boxes and sometimes 100. The machines will scale up and down based on a demand. Right now,…
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Zabbix: What is the difference between `HostMetadata` and `HostMetadataItem`?

Question = headline ;-) Official docs here. I've read this example too, but still don't have a clue. Additional question: How can I specify multiple meta items? E.g. env=staging,server=db. I would like to chose a template automatically after a…
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Zabbix-agent unreachable

One of the servers monitored by Zabbix is not reachable. I have no idea why as this works normally with other servers. The zabbix-agent service on the monitored server is running. We have several servers, all monitored by zabbix. In…
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"Lack of free swap space" on Windows Server

I have several Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machines, which are monitored by zabbix 2.4. The zabbix throws "Lack of free swap space" for some VMs, but there are disk and memory free on these machines, and the Virtual Memory is set to OS Control on…
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Zabbix cannot connect to a PostgreSQL database

First off I am running CentOS 6.5 and attempting to use Zabbix 2.2.4. Any hostnames have been replaced with examples. I have installed the following RPMs onto my Zabbix machine ( hostname will be zbx-hostname…
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SELinux blocking sudo from zabbix_agentd

I have a custom user parameter for Zabbix that calls a hardware RAID CLI tool (arcconf / megacli) and checks if any arrays are degraded. Since these tools are root-only, I have configured sudoers to allow the zabbix user access without…
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How to set up Zabbix to monitor SQL Server Failover Active-Passive Cluster?

It should be simple, so it is just most likely my approach being totally off and someone will hopefully prod me into the right direction. We have a Zabbix 2.0.3 server instance set up monitoring a bunch of different servers, but now we need to set…
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Snmpd update interface counters slowly or something like this

I update one my freebsd box to 9-stable (totally new installation) and install net-snmp for monitoring. uname -r 9.1-PRERELEASE pkg_info net-snmp-5.7.1_7 Information for net-snmp-5.7.1_7: Comment: An extendable SNMP implementation .... cat…
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Monitoring tools that can take high rate and high volume?

We're using Cacti with RRDTool to monitor and graph about 100,000 counters spread across about 1,000 Linux-based nodes. However, our current setup generally only gives us 5-minute graphs (with some data being minute-based); we often make changes…
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Log monitoring using Zabbix

I am trying to monitor a log file using Zabbix 1.8.4. I created an item using the following details: Host: Zabbix server Description: logger_test Type: Zabbix agent (active) Key: log[/tmp/scribetest/test3/test3_current,error,,100] Type of…
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Configure Zabbix to send email notifications through Exim

I've been working through the installation and configuration of Zabbix over the past couple of days and I think I've finally got everything working... except the sending of notifications / alerts. I'm running on a Ubuntu server which is using Exim…
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zabbix agent vs agent2

I am working on deploying Zabbix in our organization and comparing zabbix agent vs agent2 I found following link which is useful, https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...ent_comparison I just have a couple of questions: For agent2 "Daemonization" is…
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Why is SELinux blocking my Zabbix agent's sudo calls?

I have some Zabbix checks that require sudo. These are the contents of /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/yum history zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/needs-restarting zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/check31 zabbix…
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Zabbix - Web scenarios trigger. How to ignore the first failed attempts?

Problem: Trigger send an e-mail immediately when the site is unreachable. System: Linux Debian Stretch, Zabbix 4.2.1. Current configuration of the web scenario: Scenario: Name: website.com Update interval: 30s Attempts: 3 Agent:…
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