#110 Zabbix

Zabbix in a Nutshell

Notes

Zabbix is:

an enterprise-level real-time monitoring solution
governed by Zabbix LLC, who develop the product and provide professional services

Zabbix provides:

Metric collection
- Multi-platform Zabbix agent
- SNMP and IPMI agents
- Agentless monitoring of user services
- Custom methods
- Calculation and aggregation
- End user web monitoring
problem states detection within the incoming metric flow
native web interface
- Widget-based dashboards
- Graphs
- Network maps
- Slideshows
- Drill-down reports
notification and remediation
security and authentication
- Strong encryption between all Zabbix components
- Multiple authentication methods: Open LDAP, Active Directory
- Flexible user permission schema
- Zabbix code is open for security audits
auto-discovery
- Network discovery: device type, IP, status, uptime/downtime, etc, and takes predefined actions.
- Low-level discovery: creates items, triggers, and graphs for different elements on a device.
- Auto-registration of active agent: automatically starts monitoring new equipment with Zabbix agent.
distributed monitoring
access to all Zabbix functionality through Zabbix API