Zabbix
Maintainer
Daniel B.
Firewall Services
mailto:daniel@firewall-services.com
Description
Zabbix offers advanced monitoring, alerting and visualisation features today which are missing in other monitoring systems, even some of the best commercial ones:
Features
Here are some of the features provided by Zabbix:
- Distributed monitoring
- Centralized configuration
- Centralized access to all data
- Up-to 1000 of nodes
- Unlimited number of proxies
- Scalability
- Tested with 10,000 monitored devices and servers
- Tested with 100,000 availability and perfomance checks
- Processing of thousands of availability and performance checks per second
- Real-time monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Availability monitoring
- Integrity monitoring
- Flexible notification conditions
- Alerting users (Email, SMS, Jabber)
- Logging
- Visualisation
- User-defined views and slide shows
- Mapping
- Graphing (including pie charts)
- Zooming
- Fast Problem Resolution
- Send alerts via email, cell phone, SMS or audio alerts
- Execute remote commands
- Assuring SLA
- Hierarchial IT Services
- Real-time SLA reporting
- Reporting and trending
- Easy integration of 3rd party tools
- Analysis of yearly/monthly/daily statistics
- SLA reports
- XML data import/export
- Easy sharing of templates
- Auto discovery
- Discovery by IP range, services and SNMP
- Automatic monitoring of discovered devices
- WEB monitoring
- WEB performance and availability monitoring
- Flexible scenarios
- Support of POST and GET methods
- Flexibility
- Support of IPv4 and IPv6
- Easily extendable native agents
- Any notifications methods
- Runs on any platform
- Pro-active monitoring
- Automatic execution of remote commands
- Automatic IPMI commands
- Aggregate monitoring
- Monitoring of a group of hosts as a single host
- Agentless monitoring
- Monitoring of remote services (FTP, SSH, HTTP, other)
- Support of SNMP v1,2,3
- Support of IPMI
- SNMP traps
- High performance agents
- All platforms supported (UNIX, Windows, Novell)
- Memory utilisation
- Network utilisation
- Disk I/O
- Disk space availability
- File checksums
- Monitoring of log files
- And more...
- Security
- Flexible user permissions
- Authentication by IP address
- Protection against brute force attacks
- Escalations and notifications
- Repeated notifications
- Unlimited escalations
- Recovery messages
- Be notified while problem is not resolved
- Management functions
- Ping, traceroute to a host
- Any other functions
- Dashboard
- Personalized dashboard
- Favourite resources
- High level view
- Agent-based monitoring
- Native agent for any platform
- Immune to connection problems
- Open Source Solution
- No license driven limitations
- Access to source code
- Open to code audit
- Easy Administration
- Very fast learning curve
- All data is stored in a database (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
- Centralised configuration and storage of information
- All Information is Available Online
- ZABBIX Manual
- ZABBIX Forums
- ZABBIX Wiki
- Backed by ZABBIX Company
- Annual support agreements
- Turn-key solutions
- Technical Account Manager
- Professional Services
- and more...
Versions
Here are informations about the latest release of each component:
Requirements
- SME Server 7.X
- php-bcmath: if you have the standard php4 module, it should be ok. If you have upgraded to php5 from centosplus repo, you should manually install php-bcmath package
Components
Zabbix is composed of four major components:
- The server (the main part). The server will store and analyse the different data, send alerts, etc...
- The web interface (which is automatically installed with the server with this contrib)
- The agent, which gathers informations on the different element you monitor
- The proxy, which is an optional part, can be used to collects performance and availability data locally, and send it to the server
Server
The server is the core component of Zabbix software. It uses one database (MySQL in this contrib) to store configuration, performance and integrity informations. The server can check network services with simple check (icmop, tcp etc...) for agent-less monitoring, it can monitor network devices using snmp and is also the central component to which agent report informations (agent can work in active, passive, or both mode). The server will also analyze all the informations and send alerts depending on very flexible triggers.
Installation
to install Zabbix server, just use yum:
yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-zabbix-server
Agent
Proxy
Source
The source for
- smeserver-zabbix-server contrib can be found in the smeserver CVS on sourceforge.
- smeserver-zabbix-agent contrib can be found in the smeserver CVS on sourceforge.
- smeserver-zabbix-proxy contrib can be found in the smeserver CVS on sourceforge.
Bugs
Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-zabbix component or use on of this link:
