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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 ...
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There is any monitoring hosted solution? [closed]

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Best tool for monitoring backups, etc. and trending statstics from that data [closed]

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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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). ...
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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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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, ...
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Simple program or script to check load time of web page [closed]

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 ...
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Choosing a monitoring system for a dynamically scaling environment: Nagios v. Zabbix [closed]

When operating in the cloud and scaling boxes automatically, there are certain monitoring issues that one experiences. Sometimes we might be monitoring 10 boxes and sometimes 100. The machines will ...
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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 ...
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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 &...
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using zabbix to monitor vmware datastores

The current vmware infrastructure is a mix of ESX and ESXi at 3, 3.5 and 4.1 releases. What I would like to achieve is being able to monitore the free space of the datastores through zabbix which is ...
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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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Monitoring tool which does not average data over time [closed]

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 ...
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How to set up Zabbix to monitor SQL Server Failover Active-Passive Cluster?

It should be simple, so it is just most likely my approach being totally off and someone will hopefully prod me into the right direction. We have a Zabbix 2.0.3 server instance set up monitoring a ...
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"Lack of free swap space" on Windows Server

I have several Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machines, which are monitored by zabbix 2.4. The zabbix throws "Lack of free swap space" for some VMs, but there are disk and memory free on these machines, ...
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SELinux blocking sudo from zabbix_agentd

I have a custom user parameter for Zabbix that calls a hardware RAID CLI tool (arcconf / megacli) and checks if any arrays are degraded. Since these tools are root-only, I have configured sudoers to ...
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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" ...
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Snmpd update interface counters slowly or something like this

I update one my freebsd box to 9-stable (totally new installation) and install net-snmp for monitoring. uname -r 9.1-PRERELEASE pkg_info net-snmp-5.7.1_7 Information for net-snmp-5.7.1_7: Comment:...
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Zabbix: What is the difference between `HostMetadata` and `HostMetadataItem`?

Question = headline ;-) Official docs here. I've read this example too, but still don't have a clue. Additional question: How can I specify multiple meta items? E.g. env=staging,server=db. I would ...
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Zabbix cannot connect to a PostgreSQL database

First off I am running CentOS 6.5 and attempting to use Zabbix 2.2.4. Any hostnames have been replaced with examples. I have installed the following RPMs onto my Zabbix machine ( hostname will be zbx-...
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Zabbix-agent unreachable

One of the servers monitored by Zabbix is not reachable. I have no idea why as this works normally with other servers. The zabbix-agent service on the monitored server is running. We have several ...
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zabbix agent vs agent2

I am working on deploying Zabbix in our organization and comparing zabbix agent vs agent2 I found following link which is useful, https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...ent_comparison I just have a ...
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Configure Zabbix to send email notifications through Exim

I've been working through the installation and configuration of Zabbix over the past couple of days and I think I've finally got everything working... except the sending of notifications / alerts. I'...
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Why is SELinux blocking my Zabbix agent's sudo calls?

I have some Zabbix checks that require sudo. These are the contents of /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/yum history zabbix ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/needs-restarting zabbix ...
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Monitoring tools that can take high rate and high volume? [closed]

We're using Cacti with RRDTool to monitor and graph about 100,000 counters spread across about 1,000 Linux-based nodes. However, our current setup generally only gives us 5-minute graphs (with some ...
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Log monitoring using Zabbix

I am trying to monitor a log file using Zabbix 1.8.4. I created an item using the following details: Host: Zabbix server Description: logger_test Type: Zabbix agent (active) Key: log[/tmp/scribetest/...
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Zabbix agent - high CPU usage

I am monitoring a host with the help of Zabbix and I noticed that Zabbix agent started using quite a lot of CPU cycles: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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how to get CPU utilization in zabbix from Windows server?

I'm trying to monitor CPU utilization of windows 7 32bit PC (C2D E8400) using zabbix. I tried both "perf_counter[\Processor Information(_Total)\% Processor Time]" and "system.cpu.util[,system,avg5]". ...
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Zabbix key with comma

I'm trying to create Zabbix item with key which contains commas, it results with "Too many parameters." error. I don't see any opportunity to get rid off comma in my key. I've already tried ...
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Zabbix - Some of the monitored items don't refreh

I'm experiencing a strange issue with Zabbix monitoring a MySQL server. Most of the data from the server such as MySQL queries per second and MySQL uptime , Buffers memory etc. update nicely while ...
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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: ...
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How do I check number of processes per CPU using zabbix?

By default zabbix is able to check the total number of processes on a machine and triggers and error if these are above 300. Clearly this doesn't work well for bigger machines. I do have a server ...
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Zabbix: Nagios like hosts/services status list

How can I have a screen or view in Zabbix where I can see all or all problematic services/hosts in a status list like the one in Nagios? Below a screenshot of Nagios problematic services status list ...
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How can I monitor remote customer Windows/Linux PC's/Servers without opening a port in their firewall?

I work for an IT service provider - we support a range of Windows and Linux servers/PC's on our customer sites. I'm looking for a way to monitor basic stuff on these devices (e.g. disk space usage, ...
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Zabbix - UserParameter Powershell script item is 'not supported' - CPU per process monitoring

I'm new to zabbix and I'm trying to create custom User Parameter to Monitor CPU utility per process(Windows Machine). I have a powershell script and a user parameter, I also added a new item under ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Zabbix with active checks

In Zabbix 2.0 I have configured zabbix agents to be active and disabled passive checks. I've also configured the host to automatically add these hosts to the "Discovered Hosts" host group. However, ...
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Zabbix Trigger for SELinux (type=AVC) Errors

I would like to create a trigger in Zabbix to alert me anytime a type=AVC error appears in a CentOS 6 server's /var/log/audit/audit.log file. I've already tried creating a basic log scrape. E.g.: ...
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Configure active zabbix agent

I'm having trouble configuring an active zabbix agent in 2.0. If I set DisablePassive=1 then it stops listening, but the master zabbix server just reports the node as not responding. How exactly ...
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Zabbix run action(remote command) manualy

Zabbix version: 2.0 Is there any way to run action(remote command) manualy from web interface? I didn't find any
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