How To

SNMP is one of the most used monitoring types inside Zabbix. But it is also one of the most frustrating tools to configure for newcomers. Even experienced guys tend to make simple mistakes during configuration, which later lead to a lot of issues with flapping items, interfaces, false-positive notifications, or even worse.

One of the most technically experienced Zabbix trainers – Dmitry Lamberts reveals his five important improvements that were included in Zabbix 5.0 LTS release. Read the recap from Zabbix Online Meetup in English where Dmitry shared his advice on new features.

Maps — one of many visualization options inside the Zabbix, a way to display your collected data, show the problems and create your topology. A map is more than a simple picture. It includes many small but very useful key features.

Low-level discovery (LLD) functionality allows you to dynamically monitor all your environment for metrics that can change from time to time, and also can be and are different between multiple servers. Zabbix monitoring software will connect to the device, check for entities that exist on it, and based on discovery output create regular items and […]

Network discovery is a good feature to simplify your daily routine on maintaining rapidly changing environment. Active registration is good, but it is limited only to hosts with Zabbix agent, while network discovery does not have any limitations.

With calculated items, you can create calculations based on other items. The values will be periodically calculated based on an arithmetical expression and done by the Zabbix server – nothing  is performed on Zabbix agents or proxies.

Aggregate checks allow you to gather data from items within one or multiple host groups. Therefore, you can get overall information about your group, instead of one single host.

SNMP is the main protocol for monitoring network hardware which may be used in Zabbix — an all-in-one solution for monitoring a large number of objects in static (changing slowly) networks.

How Netco Technology automated the deployment and management of multiple Zabbix installations.

Use Zabbix to not only keep an eye on your IT infrastructure, but also collect and store Inventory data from your data sources, that later can be utilized in any third party tools.

Learn how Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH integrated Zabbix server instances into the existing IBM Netcool ticket system to reuse the entire existing infrastructure and attached business processes and work with alerts created by Zabbix.

Learn how to get the most out of the Zabbix Agent active and passive modes to fix problems proactively with remote commands.