Zabbix – Another monitoring tool for Linux

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Zabbix is a network management system application created by Alexei Vladishev. It is designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware.

It uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Oracle to store data. Its backend is written in C and the web frontend is written in PHP. Zabbix offers several monitoring options. Simple checks can verify the availability and responsiveness of standard services such as SMTP or HTTP without installing any software on the monitored host. A Zabbix agent can also be installed on UNIX

and Windows hosts to monitor statistics such as CPU load, network utilization, disk space, etc. As an alternative to installing an agent on hosts, Zabbix includes support for monitoring via SNMP, TCP and ICMP checks, IPMI and custom parameters. Zabbix supports a variety of real-time notification mechanisms, including XMPP.

Zabbix is included into several popular OS distributions. But Zabbix latest releases may not be available. So if you want to install the latest version of Zabbix you have to download it from zabbix download page.

Installation

In Ubuntu you can install zabbix from ubuntu Software Center of via the command line bellow :

 
sudo apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-agent

Now choose which database you want to use : Mysql or Pgsql

Choose the password and confirm

- Confirm

Now to use zabbix, open your favorite browser and type

http://ip/zabbix   or   http://localhost/zabbix

When you got the login screen use the following :

username : admin

password : zabbix

If you have problems with login the first time to zabbix please refer to this post in zabbix forum

To Set date.timezone option in php.ini please see this post.

• Now lets   give  you  same  screenhots  from  the  monitoring  Zabbix  server.

Usefull Links : http://www.zabbix.com , http://www.wikipedia.com

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