Zabbix Wiki

A weblog (or blog) has appeared for Zabbix. With an RSS feed and interesting updates it surely would be something to follow for every Zabbix user. Oh, the location - it can be found at http://blog.zabbix.com/.

An SNMP interface for Zabbix has been released by http://www.opensistemas.com/.

Running as net-snmpd sub-agent and licensed under GPLv3 it should help with integration greatly until Zabbix API fully matures.

Zabbix appliance has been released today. It's available for download right now, and you can read initial documentation.

While not yet intended for production use, this appliance should provide easier way for Zabbix newbies to evaluate it, or for veteran users to see what great features new versions have.

With some delay in here, two new versions of Zabbix have been released - from current stable branch 1.8 and legacy branch, 1.6.

See what's new in 1.8.2 and release notes for 1.8.2.

If you are still on the older branch, see release notes for 1.6.9.

Recently two new books on Zabbix have been released, one in English, and one in Japanese.

And now they both have also arrived at Zabbix offices, and have become good friends.

Zabbix books on a friendly spring walk

So you need some help or advice regarding Zabbix. Here are the possibilities of receiving one. To ensure you receive quality and timely help, follow some basic guidelines as well.

• Be polite;
• Make sure others can understand what you wrote. Avoid abbreviations, usually associated with texting.
• Be as specific as possible - if you are asking about some problem, specify Zabbix version. Usually it is also helpful to note database type and version. If asking about some feature, it is useful to explain what you have done to resolve it yourself. If this is related to some specific functionality that relies on 3rd party library, add information about library used and it's version (like net-snmp-5.4.2.1 or openipmi-2.0.16).

Look around this wiki. It has been split in multiple section to help you get started:

• Installation instructions;
• Further configuration instructions;
• Instructions for monitoring specific devices, applications etc;
• Technical documentation regarding internal details;
• If you have stumbled upon a problem not explained in the other sections, take a look at the troubleshooting pages.
• Contributed templates are collected in the templates section.
• There are also various scripts available for data gathering and Zabbix maintenance.

Zabbix forum has a large collection of valuable information and discussions. Feel free to open a new thread if you can't find an already existing one on the topic. Observe some basic guidelines:

• Use English (unless posting in a specific language subsection);
• Choose the correct forum section for your thread;
• If discussing a different problem than the one in the thread, open a new thread. If you have several unrelated questions, do not tuck them all in a single thread - it will be harder for you to receive help that way.

There is a channel, devoted to Zabbix discussion on the freenode network - #zabbix. Use one of the many IRC clients to connect. There are some IRC-specific guidelines:

• Do not ask to ask. There is no use to ask something like “can somebody help with something Zabbix related” - that's what the channel is there for. Additionally, this would require somebody to confirm, then you would ask the question, while you could have asked the actual question and received the answer already.
• Allow for some time to pass after asking the question. Do not assume that everybody in the channel is glued to the screen - there are real life duties and there are many different timezones. It might be middle of the night for somebody what is middle of the working day for you. There are also different holidays around the workd. Given these circumstances, it is suggested to stay at least 24 hours in the channel after asking the question.
• Do not repeat your question all the time, it will only get people annoyed. Having said that, repeating a question might be appropriate once a day if there have been no responses.

• Zabbix on MuckNet blog
• Zabbix on Pierky's blog
• Spanish Zabbix's Blog / Blog de Zabbix en español
• Блог о Zabbix на русском языке
• Zabbix on Kodai's blog in Japan
• SmartMarmot's Blog monitoring databases EX:Rootzone