Zabbix plays a crucial role in monitoring all kinds of “things” – IoT devices, domains, cloud infrastructures and more. It can also be integrated with third-party solutions – for example, with Oxidized for configuration backup monitoring. Given the nature of Zabbix, it usually contains a lot of confidential information as well as (more importantly) some […]

As a Zabbix partner, we help customers worldwide with all their Zabbix needs, ranging from building a simple template all the way to (massive) turn-key implementations, trainings, and support contracts. Quite often during projects, we get the question, “How about making configuration backups of our network equipment? We need this, as another tool was also […]

In this blog post, I’ll guide you through building your own template to monitor the latest Zabbix releases directly from the Zabbix UI. Follow the simple walkthrough to know how.

As Premium Zabbix partner, Opensource ICT Solutions is building Zabbix solutions all over the world. That means we have customers with a broad variety of requirements, thoughts on how to monitor things, which metrics are important and how to alert upon it. If one of those customers approaches us with a question concerning a task […]

The low-level discovery was introduced in Zabbix 2.0 and still belongs to one of the all-time favorites. Before LLD was available, adding items was all manual work. For example adding new disks, new interfaces, network ports on switches and everything else was all manual labor. And then LLD came around and suddenly we were able […]

Recently, Whatsapp pushed their new privacy policy where they announced to share more data with Facebook, causing an exodus to other platforms, where Signal is one of the more popular ones, among Telegram. Both are great alternatives, but I prefer Signal due to the open-source part, end to end encryption, and last but not least: […]

Zabbix proxies allow you to monitor a remote location, a DMZ, and even use cases as using proxies to ‘convert’ passive checks into active or move some load from your Zabbix server towards the proxies is a common solution.

In this post, we will consider a setup for legacy networks, which is, combined with some API calls to the DNS server, allows for updating the entries automatically and facilitating an automatic failover. This presentation was delivered by Brian van Baekel, an experienced consultant and Zabbix trainer at Opensource ICT Solutions B.V., The Netherlands during Zabbix […]