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Introduction To Zabbix

The document introduces the Zabbix monitoring system. It begins by comparing Zabbix to Nagios and describing Zabbix's licensing and codebase. The bulk of the document then demonstrates Zabbix's features, including its web frontend for visualizing data through graphs, maps, and screens. It also covers Zabbix's capabilities for configuring monitoring, gathering data, storing data, creating thresholds and triggers, using templates, and distributed monitoring with proxies. It concludes by discussing Zabbix version 1.8's improvements to performance, reporting, and automation.

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389 views

Introduction To Zabbix

The document introduces the Zabbix monitoring system. It begins by comparing Zabbix to Nagios and describing Zabbix's licensing and codebase. The bulk of the document then demonstrates Zabbix's features, including its web frontend for visualizing data through graphs, maps, and screens. It also covers Zabbix's capabilities for configuring monitoring, gathering data, storing data, creating thresholds and triggers, using templates, and distributed monitoring with proxies. It concludes by discussing Zabbix version 1.8's improvements to performance, reporting, and automation.

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Introducing Zabbix

SIA Zabbix
www.zabbix.com
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Zabbix and endocrinology
Hans Selye, father of the stress theory

Distress

Eustress
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Why monitor?
Answer to distress
Why monitor (besides medical reasons)?
Downtime Costs
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What is Zabbix?
Distributed monitoring system
Centralised configuration
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History of Zabbix
Development started internally in a bank in 1998
First public opensource release in 2001
No hidden meaning in the name
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Today
1. Comparing with Nagios
2. How cool is Zabbix
3. How is it doing?
4. Q & A
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Comparing with Nagios what's included
Integrated solution

Data retrieving

Historical data storage

Official web based frontend

Alerting, discovery

More
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Comparing with Nagios licensing
GPLv2
No proprietary addons, professional or
enterprise versions
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Comparing with Nagios code
Zabbix
Server C C
Agents C Various
PHP Various
Custom checks Any Any
Nagios
Frontend
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Comparing with Nagios - details
Concepts
Technical differences
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About Zabbix
2. How cool is Zabbix?
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Basic architecture
Binary daemons
Web frontend
Distributed setup
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Agent availability
Tru64
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Web frontend monitoring
Viewing data
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Web frontend - graphs
Visualisation

Free simple graphs

Custom graphs
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Web frontend maps
Network maps

Elements

Connectors
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Web frontend screens

Seeing information in context


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Web frontend configuration

Configure everything

Efficient actions

Shipped with Zabbix


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Data gathering direct server
Simple

ICMP

TCP port

TCP service
SNMP

Traps
IPMI
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Data gathering Zabbix agents
Official native agents

Passive (pull)

Active (push)
Lightweight
Server
Active
Passive
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Data gathering custom items
All so different yeah,
I say we're all the same
www.kjkoster.org/zapcat
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Data storage

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQLite
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Thresholds

Triggers

Expressions
{host:item.function}<10

MySQL:qps.avg(300)>5000
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Templating
Easy large scale configuration
Template_MySQL MySQL server
Queries per second
{Template_MySQL:qps.avg(300)}>5000
{Server:qps.avg(300)}>5000
Graph
Queries per second
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Multiple templates
Template_MySQL
Backup server
Template_Bacula
Template_PgSQL
Template_Postfix
E-mail server
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Nested templates
Template_PgSQL Template_Postfix
E-mail server 1
E-mail server 2
E-mail server 3
Template_E-mail server
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Alerting
Flexible conditions
Choose your media
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Alerting escalations
Extremely flexible
Combined operations
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Escalate it
Immediately e-mail administrator
10 minutes send SMS to admin
15 minutes open report at helpdesk system
30 minutes e-email management
1 hour send SMS to management
2 hours restart Apache
6 hours reboot the server
24 hours power cycle whole server room
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Alerting - macros
Send out useful messages
Customise for recipients
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Host inventory
Notification macros
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Network discovery
Multiple protocols
Flexible actions
Conditions Operations
Host IP: 192.168.1-100.1-20

1. Add host
Responds to: SNMPv2 2. Add it to group switches
SNMP OID: SNMPv2-
MIB::sysDescr.0 contains
GoodVendor
3. Link to template
GoodVendor 12345M
switch
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Web monitoring
Scenarios
Alerting
Visualisation
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Distributed monitoring
Zabbix server
?
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Distributed monitoring
Zabbix server
Zabbix proxy
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Nodes
Riga
Paris
Rome
Istanbul
Lyon Toulouse
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Upgrade policies

Database strategy

Compatibility
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Coming up next
3. How is it doing?
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It is alive and well
1.8
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1.8
Performance

Faster

Server

Proxy
1.6 1.8
0
2
4
6
8
10
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1.8
Get me that report
Bar reports
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1.8
I can show you a chart
Better graphs

Period selection
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1.8
Who did that?
Even more accountability
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1.8
Lazy administrators

Automated management
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1.8
Lazy administrators

Automated management
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1.8
API
Zabcon
www.zabbix.com/wiki/doc/zabcon
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1.8
API
Zabcon - hosts
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Did I mention this?

All functionality bundled


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Questions and answers
Q & A
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Thank you
The single most annoying problem in Zabbix is
that I don't have to wait 15 minutes before Cacti
spits out graphs. So I need to schedule coffee
breaks myself.
Zabbix user
www.zabbix.com
#zabbix on freenode

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