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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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Is Zabbix the right tool for me?

I just want to monitor a small handful of servers (less than 10). From reading various places it sounds like the top leading contenders (for open source at least) are: nagios munin zabbix From what I have read a lot of people tend to use munin…
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There is any monitoring hosted solution?

I know Zabbix and Nagios, but I don't know any company that host those services for others to use. I would like to find a solution that monitored at least some of my public URLs (if they are returning a expected result).
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How to automate zabbix web scenarios for vhosts?

I'm new to Zabbix and enterprise monitoring. I've just finished installing Zabbix 2.4. I'm trying to monitor the state of all our vhosts dislocated on different servers. Until now the only solution I came up with is to manually add a Web scenario to…
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zabbix agents with the same IP moving between proxies

We have a Zabbix environment where we are attempting to monitor systems on customer networks through proxies installed at each location. Many customer sites share the same IP range which seems to be a problem for Zabbix. We're having an issue where…
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Zabbix server sends too many notifications

I've recently installed Zabbix server on a VPS and am very happy with it. I've installed the client on appr. 6-7 other VPSs and everything works fine. The interface is smooth, and it produces some very nice graphs. My only problem with the software…
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Best tool for monitoring backups, etc. and trending statstics from that data

I have done some research on nagios, opennms, and zenoss but am not confident that I have found what I am looking for. The main driving force for me right now is being able to monitor backups. This includes mysql, mssql, and eventually some file…
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Zabbix icmp pinger processes more than 75% busy

In my zabbix server I have this error. Zabbix icmp pinger processes more than 75% busy Anybody have some advice how fix it? Regards
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Linux: Is it possible to know which options an installation was configured and compiled with?

I need to implement some web checks in our Zabbix system which requires Zabbix to be compiled with the libcurl (curl) option, but I don't know how to check if it was compiled with this option or not, Is there any command or file which will assist me…
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Zabbix graph of item from different hosts

How can I get Zabbix to display the same item from multiple hosts in a single graph? I wish to compare the item on different hosts.
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unit zabbix-agent.service is masked

When i try to start/restart/stop/status the zabbix-agent service. I get the following error. I precise that I have made an install and then purged - removed it to install another version (upgrade). and since that I get this error: Failed to start…
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Zabbix - service restart

I have zabbix monitoring multiple servers (Linux and Windows). Is it possible to have zabbix automate services that they are down to automatically restart?
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Can Zabbix alert me when an SNMP device does not respond?

Zabbix is capable of monitoring SNMP-capable devices, and even displays their status in its web interface: The green icon indicates that Zabbix is receiving data. The red icon indicates that Zabbix is not receiving data. However, I can't find any…
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Monitoring tool which does not average data over time

I am looking for a monitoring system like Cacti which doesn't loose data over a time, all the tools I have found use rrd files which averages the data as time goes by. I would like a to be able to go back to (for example) April 1 at 12:00 and see…
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Simple program or script to check load time of web page

I'm looking for a simple program or script, you give it a URL and it does the following: checks whether it can open a connection to that URL and reports how long the response time is checks how long it takes to the load the page and reports this…
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Zabbix: What does "Questions" mean in "MySQL Command Counters"?

I have Zabbix monitoring a MySQL server, the MySQL Command Counter chart is nice, but a large portion of the graph shows massive Questions, Unlike SELECT or INSERT, what does Question mean in MySQL & Zabbix?
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