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“Why on earth was I not notified?!”

Posted on January 16, 2013 by volter

“Why on earth was I not notified?!” — ever heard that question from a fellow worker? Setting up notifications can be a challenge — and not only for beginners. Normally, debugging such cases is cumbersome, complex and requires a good … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.0 packages for RHEL, CentOS, SL

Posted on December 27, 2012 by volter

EPEL finally offers Zabbix 2.0 packages. These packages are for you, if you are running RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux or any other Red Hat derivative. EPEL aims to provide best quality packages, that follow the same rules and conventions as … Continue reading →

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Putting dots on JMX monitoring

Posted on October 5, 2012 by dimir

Introduction JMX monitoring with Zabbix is easy using Zabbix Java gateway. Let’s say you have a JMX-enabled Java application running on some host. You start the Java gateway, configure Zabbix server to use that, add that host in Zabbix frontend, … Continue reading →

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Connecting to the Zabbix appliance in VirtualBox

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Richlv

For quite some time now Zabbix has been offering a virtual appliance for those who would like to try it out or have a simple deployment for a small environment. Among other virtualisation solutions, users also run it on VirtualBox. … Continue reading →

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A workaround for trigger based maintenance

Posted on August 17, 2012 by volter

Often host level maintenance is too much. Picture a machine running multiple services: While one service has a scheduled downtime, others continue their work and you want to be alarmed about them. Zabbix has no maintenance on trigger level at … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Zabbix API

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Alexei Vladishev

Zabbix API starts to play significant role especially when it comes to integration of Zabbix with third-party software like configuration and incident management systems as well as for automation of routine tasks. It is incredibly difficult to manage monitoring of … Continue reading →

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Importing legacy Cacti/MRTG data into Zabbix

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Ben Karsin, University of Hawaii

Here at the University of Hawaii at Manoa ITS department, we recently began using Zabbix. Before adopting Zabbix, we monitored our resources with a loosely integrated mix of several software components, including Cacti, MRTG, and uPortal. Having used this old … Continue reading →

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Monitoring weather with Zabbix

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Aleksandrs Saveljevs

Zabbix has proven itself successful as an IT monitoring solution when there is a need to oversee the health of hundreds and thousands of servers. However, there is no reason to think that such a powerful system can only do … Continue reading →

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