Tag Archives: 2.2

Zabbix 2.2 features, part 10 – support of loadable modules

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Alexei Vladishev

Zabbix comes with an impressive list of supported metrics for virtually all platforms. It covers the monitoring of performance and availability of OS including CPU, memory, network, processes, files, kernel parameters and more. Zabbix also performs agent-less checks for well-known … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 9 – No more full page reload in latest data

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Richlv

The Monitoring -> Latest data page in the Zabbix frontend allows to see values for items. Items are grouped by application (if assigned), and they can be expanded and collapsed. Previously, any such operation would result in a full page … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 8 – Reusing content in web monitoring

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Richlv

In several previous articles in the Zabbix 2.2 series we already discussed several improvements for web monitoring – the ability to template it, customise the amount of retries and the ability to specify an HTTP proxy on the scenario level. … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 7 – Value extracting from logfiles and more

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Richlv

In the previous article in 2.2 series we explored a new ability to extract values from a webpage. This was not the only feature that was extended this way – several other items gained similar functionality – notably, file content parsing … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 6 – Returning values from webpages

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Richlv

Zabbix has allowed to check whether a webpage contains a specific string for a long time – using the web.page.regexp[] agent item one could verify whether page contents match a regular expression or not, and return the matched string. But … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 5 – Better value mapping

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Richlv

Value mapping is a neat, little feature in Zabbix that allows to see what a numeric code actually means. Well, what did that mean? For example, a UPS device might return “2″, which means “all is OK”, and “3″, which … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 4 – HTTP proxy for web monitoring

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Richlv

Having explored two other improvements to the built-in web monitoring – ability to template it and change retry count – let’s take a look at another one. Until Zabbix 2.2, it was not possible to set HTTP proxy for web monitoring… … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 3 – Web scenario retries

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Richlv

Let’s continue our series about the improvements that are coming in Zabbix 2.2. We already examined one web monitoring improvement – ability to template it. But there’s more – in 2.2 you will be able to specify how many times a … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 2 – Templated web monitoring

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Richlv

Continuing with the series on upcoming Zabbix 2.2, the second feature we will look at will be related to the built-in web monitoring that has been available in Zabbix for quite some time already. One problem some users faced – … Continue reading →

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Zabbix 2.2 features, part 1 – Automatic database upgrading

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Richlv

Zabbix currently is at version 2.0, and this version took quite a long time to get out – almost 2 and a half years. Of course, all that wait was not in vain – Zabbix 2.0 provided a huge amount … Continue reading →

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