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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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What are passive checks good for on Zabbix?

Official docs here. Passive checks = Zabbix server polling Active checks = Zabbix client (agent) pushing What is the advantage of passive checks? It requires an additional port on the clients to be open.
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Zabbix vfs.fs.size gives wrong result when filesystem is not mounted

I am using an item vfs.fs.size[/bakcrypt,free] (generated by autodiscovery) to monitor diskspace on an encrypted file system (and of course others). The encrypted filesystem in not auto mounted immediately at system startup because a passphrase has…
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How to get all SNMP items using zabbix?

Scenario: OS: CentOS 7.2 Zabbix version: 3.0 Trying to monitor some switches using SNMP protocol I'm able to monitor them without any problem, all items are working and everything is fine but adding every item is a pain in the ass and I'm not into…
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Is it possible to monitor processes with Zabbix?

I've installed zabbix-server, zabbix-proxy and some zabbix-agents on some of my dedicated servers. Everything is working and I'm quite happy with everything but I was curious about this topic: monitoring processes. What I want: I would like Zabbix…
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Zabbix: Monitor child spawn rate

We have set up zabbix to monitor our infrastructure, and our security team denied us to run custom scripts through zabbix. This makes our lives a bit harder to find solutions which don't require customized scripts. I've been researching for a while…
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Zabbix web monitoring - storing response

Zabbix web monitoring (https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...web_monitoring) provides most of the functionality that we need for monitoring some application elements to our platform. It can check a URL on a schedule, check the return code, apply…
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Zabbix - auto un-registration of a monitored host?

How to automatically remove an auto registered host from zabbix server when the monitored host is decommissioned? In other words: How to do auto unregistration?
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How do I configure zabbix to add containers dynamically and monitor them across servers that have agents?

I am struggling with discovering and monitoring dynamic (i.e. moving) containers across multiple physical servers and affiliating the results with the container service, not the server on which the agent that runs it is running. I have 2 servers: A…
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Monitoring a ZFS Raid Pool on Ubuntu for Integrity and Performance

I set up ZFS on Ubuntu (via fuse) for a storage array at home and it has worked great for almost a year now, despite its 'beta' status. I log in and check the array every once in a while using: zpool status Which results in: NAME STATE …
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Zabbix: MySQL service monitor - invalid entry when restarting zabbix-agent

Take the following situation: zabbixserver: httpd, mysql-server, zabbix 2.2.11 with local database databaseserver: mysql-server zabbixserver monitors the local mysql database correctly. zabbixserver reports that mysql on the databaseserver is…
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What is the sendEmail equivalent on CentOS 7?

I am trying to follow the steps below. But there is no sendEmail on CentOS 7. I have looked at a few alternatives like Postfix, but I am not sure of the script commands. Alternatively you can use sendEmail. 1) apt-get install sendEmail 2) Create a…
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Optimal configuration of "Processor load is too high" trigger in Zabbix

I monitor approx. 10 Linux servers with 4 CPU cores each with Zabbix. I was receiving way to many false alarms from "Processor load is too high" trigger lately. The "Processor load is too high" trigger expression was: {Template OS…
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Zabbix PDF Report Generation

if any of you have an idea how to implement zabbix generate PDF reports? in forum I found some like this: https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24998 . I try implement this to my zabbix 2.2.3 but when I do this I still see Text (Unable to…
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Zabbix: How do I configure a Trigger which will check if a specific value has been changed in the last 10 minutes?

I've been given the task to monitor a specific value in some MySQL server database, I need to raise a notification if the value has not been changed in the last 10 minutes. I've added to the UserParameter_mysql.conf the following…
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Get power status over ipmi from zabbix

I am now looking for a way how to monitoring a server hardware such as fans/power supplies/etc.. The problem is, we have very dynamic environment - servers are automatically powered on/off - even several times a day, depending on load. I created…
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