http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/ 2012-02-11T05:18:09+02:00 http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/ http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-02-10T11:12:36+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/contrib/manual_outline?rev=1328865156&do=diff Level Status __________________Description___________________ 1 2 3 4 5 Writer Dev review Translate 1. intro Manual Structure & concepts about Something long long long long long long long long long long long long long what is Zabbix done features done overview (architecture) done what's ne… text/html 2012-02-10T11:09:37+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/concepts/definitions?rev=1328864977&do=diff 1 Zabbix definitions Overview In this section you can learn the meaning of some terms commonly used in Zabbix. Definitions host - a networked device that you want to monitor, with IP/DNS. item - a particular piece of data that you want to receive off of a host, a metric of data. text/html 2012-02-10T07:03:11+02:00 richlv http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/api/getting_started?rev=1328850191&do=diff What is Zabbix API Normally, you have only one way, to manipulate, configure and create objects in Zabbix - through it's PHP frontend. This is great, but only until you decide to build something custom: create a batch add/update script, or a custom monitoring tool, or anything else, that is not provided by default Zabbix GUI interface. text/html 2012-02-09T12:12:38+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/web_interface/user_profile/sound?rev=1328782358&do=diff 2 Sound in browsers Overview For the sounds to be played in Zabbix frontend, Frontend messaging must be enabled in the user profile Messaging tab, with all trigger severities checked, and sounds should also be enabled in the global notification pop-up window. text/html 2012-02-09T12:11:41+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/web_interface/user_profile?rev=1328782301&do=diff 3 User profile Overview In the user profile you can customize some Zabbix front-end features, such as the interface language, color theme, number of rows displayed in the lists etc. The changes made here will apply for the user only. To access the user profile configuration form, click on Profile in the upper right corner of Zabbix window. text/html 2012-02-09T12:09:15+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/web_interface/user_profile/global_notifications?rev=1328782155&do=diff 1 Global notifications Overview Global notifications are a way of displaying issues that are currently happening right on the screen you're at in Zabbix frontend. Without global notifications, working in some other location than Status of triggers or Dashboard pages would not show any information regarding issues that are currently happening. Global notifications will display this information regardless of where you are. text/html 2012-02-08T22:39:39+02:00 sasha http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/discovery/network_discovery/rule?rev=1328733579&do=diff Configuring a network discovery rule Overview To configure a network discovery rule used by Zabbix to discover hosts and services: * Go to Configuration -> Discovery * Click on Create rule (or on the rule name to edit an existing one) * Edit the discovery rule attributes text/html 2012-02-08T22:38:25+02:00 sasha http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/auto-discovery/auto-discovery_rule?rev=1328733505&do=diff 4 Network discovery rule Network discovery rule is a rule used by Zabbix to discover hosts and services. Parameters of network discovery rule: ParameterDescriptionName Name of the rule. For example, “Local network”.IP range Range of IP addresses for discovery. It may have the following formats: Single IP: 192.168.1.33 Range of IP addresses: 192.168.1.1-255 IP mask: 192.168.4.0/24 Supported IP masks: /16 - /32 for IPv4 addresses /112 - /128 for IPv6 addresses List: 192.168.1.1-255,192.16… text/html 2012-02-08T17:35:45+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/installation/install?rev=1328715345&do=diff 3 Installation From distribution packages Several popular OS distributions have Zabbix packages provided. You can use these packages to install Zabbix. OS From the sources You can get the very latest version of Zabbix by compiling it from the sources. text/html 2012-02-08T16:39:51+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/appendix/install/db_scripts?rev=1328711991&do=diff 1 Database creation scripts Overview A Zabbix database must be created during the installation of Zabbix. This section provides scripts for creating a Zabbix database. A separate schema script is provided for each supported database. data.sql Scripts IBM DB2: text/html 2012-02-08T16:34:51+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/appendix/install?rev=1328711691&do=diff 2 Installation text/html 2012-02-03T12:39:36+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/config/hosts/host?rev=1328265576&do=diff 1 Configuring a host Overview To configure a host in Zabbix frontend, do the following: * Go to: Configuration -> Hosts * Click on Create to the right (or on the host name to edit an existing host) * Enter parameters of the host in the form text/html 2012-02-03T12:09:19+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/installation/requirements?rev=1328263759&do=diff 2 Requirements 2.1 Hardware Memory Zabbix requires both physical and disk memory. 128 MB of physical memory and 256 MB of free disk space could be a good starting point. However, the amount of required disk memory obviously depends on the number of hosts and parameters that are being monitored. If you're planning to keep a long history of monitored parameters, you should be thinking of at least a couple of gigabytes to have enough space to store the history in the database. Each Zabbix… text/html 2012-02-03T12:01:35+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/concepts/agent?rev=1328263295&do=diff 3 Agent Overview Zabbix agent is deployed on a monitoring target to actively monitor local resources and applications (hard drives, memory, processor statistics etc). The agent gathers operational information locally and reports data to Zabbix server for further processing. In case of failures (such as a hard disk running full or a crashed service process), Zabbix server can actively alert the administrators of the particular machine that reported the failure. text/html 2012-02-03T11:40:09+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/concepts?rev=1328262009&do=diff 1 Zabbix definitions Overview In this section you can learn the meaning of some terms commonly used in Zabbix. Definitions host - a networked device that you want to monitor, with IP/DNS. item - a particular piece of data that you want to receive off of a host, a metric of data. text/html 2012-02-03T11:31:27+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/concepts/sender?rev=1328261487&do=diff 6 Sender (UNIX) Overview Zabbix UNIX sender is a command line utility that may be used to send performance data to Zabbix server for processing. The utility is usually used in long running user scripts for periodical sending of availability and performance data. text/html 2012-02-03T11:27:15+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/concepts/get?rev=1328261235&do=diff 7 Get (UNIX) Overview Zabbix Get is a process which can be used to communicate with Zabbix agent and retrieve required information from the agent. The utility is usually used for the troubleshooting of Zabbix agents. Running zabbix_get For example, you can run zabbix_get to get the processor load value from the agent: text/html 2012-02-03T11:17:16+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual?rev=1328260636&do=diff Zabbix Manual Welcome to the user manual for Zabbix 2.0 software. These pages are created to help our users successfully manage their monitoring tasks with Zabbix, from the simple to the more complex. text/html 2012-02-03T10:42:13+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/introduction?rev=1328258533&do=diff 1 Manual structure Structure The content of this Zabbix 2.0 manual is divided into sections and subsections to provide easy access to particular subjects of interest. When you navigate to respective sections, make sure that you expand section folders to reveal full content of what is included in subsections and individual pages. text/html 2012-02-03T10:38:41+02:00 martins-v http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/introduction/manual_structure?rev=1328258321&do=diff 1 Manual structure Structure The content of this Zabbix 2.0 manual is divided into sections and subsections to provide easy access to particular subjects of interest. When you navigate to respective sections, make sure that you expand section folders to reveal full content of what is included in subsections and individual pages.