Questions tagged [zabbix]

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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How can I force Zabbix to warn about disaster alert after 4 attemps?

I use Zabbix 3.4 and I am trying to configure Zabbix to send an alarm only after 4 attemps. This alarm checks if the HTTP server returns 200 code. I have tried to set up a Web Scenario, but in the Zabbix Docs they say this: The number of attempts…
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How to make Zabbix populate more than a single counter from the result of a single request?

I have a Zabbix 3.4 server and a cluster of Nutanix CE software that also happens to have a pretty rich REST API which happens to provide not just status or inventory, but also performance by a single request. I'd like to make Zabbix track this data…
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ODBC Item on MySQL query causes Zabbix server to stop

I'am new to Zabbix. Today I've tried to add a SQL item (Database monitoring) to a host without success. Without this SQL item, the Zabbix server runs fine. I check this with service zabbix-server status. After I enable the SQL item, hit Check now…
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zabbix 3.2 - How to monitor RHEL7.2 services in zabbix

I am new in zabbix monitoring. I have 2 operation system to monitor windows and Linux and i have done monitoring windows services but i not getting any result on google to monitor linux server services. I want to monitor service status, its CPU and…
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Monitoring AWS RSS feed with zabbix

I ran into this post How to monitor an RSS with Zabbix and want to the same for all 4 AWS regions https://status.aws.amazon.com/ but no idea how to start
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Zabbix. Math operations with items -> graph

I am using Zabbix 1.8 for network management reporting. I have an item, for example net.if.in[<,mode>] I need to build graph using value (net.if.in[<,mode>])/n, where "n" is any integer. I know just this way - in item's properties put a…
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Zabbix Proxy not doing active checks

I have a Zabbix Proxy running on Raspien. The version of proxy is 3.0.7 and the version of server is 3.4.11. The proxy communicates with the server under Administration -> Proxies but its not running active checks. When I tail the logs on the…
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Zabbix doesn't run custom alert script

I'm running Debian 8 and Zabbix 3.4 and made a custom alert script, which runs fine when I run in terminal from /usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts: ./sms.sh This send a SMS via Nexmo. In my zabbix_server.conf I…
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Zabbix graph not showing disk usage

So, I am using Zabbix to monitor my server. At / file system I have 63 GB free. So I wanted to fake a huge file on that directory to see if the Zabbix graphs would correctly show that the used space had increased. So I ran this : cd / && sudo…
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"Couldn't resolve host name: Could not resolve host:" in Zabbix

Getting "Couldn't resolve host name: Could not resolve host: example.zabbixagent.com; Name or service not known" in Zabbix server although DNS and hostname of Zabbix Active Agent is correct. Is this a bug or a misconfiguration in Zabbix? Please…
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When a host was added to Zabbix

It is possible to know when a host was inserted to zabbix for monitoring? I need to check how many hosts were added into my zabbix in the last two months.
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How to manage add zabbix templates to configured hosts without overwriting what is there?

I am trying to use ansible to manage how templates are added to the configured hosts on my Zabbix server. I am looking for a way to have the templates be added without overridding the templates that are already there. For example, I have 5…
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How long was Zabbix offline?

I am running a Zabbix server on Ubuntu 16.04 in a location with really bad grid power. Even with a UPS, the Zabbix server frequently goes down. Because the whole building looses power, I have now way of knowing how long the Zabbix server was…
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Cannot connect to database

I am getting this error when trying to set up Zabbix to my MySQL database on Ubuntu. They are running on the same VM. However I am getting this error, and I have not found anything in the log files. Does anyone know why this would happen or how to…
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Why my host shows up as unreachable on the zabbix server?

I have a zabbix server and an agent, on two different computers. The agent runs in active mode, e.g. I have this in the config file: StartAgents=0 ServerActive=my.zabbix.server.com Hostname=my.zabbix.agent.com The zabbix server can be reached from…
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