packet analysis

One of the built-in security features in Zabbix is TLS (Transport Layer Security) support for external connections. This means that when your distributed Zabbix proxies or Zabbix agents connect to the Zabbix server (or vice versa), TLS can be used to encrypt all the connections. When the connections are encrypted, third parties cannot read the […]

A variety of tools exist that can be used to troubleshoot different Zabbix components. In this article I will demonstrate how Wireshark can be used to rule out network connectivity issues as the root cause of data collection problems.

One of the features of Zabbix proxy is that it can buffer the collected monitoring data if connectivity to Zabbix server is lost. In this post I will show it happening, using packet capture, or packet analysis.