Reasons why it sucks... (in no particular order)
Reason 1) Installed it on a brand new server running ubuntu 14. Nothing else installed. After 2 weeks of testing it crashes about every 2-3 days with a message that the zabbix server is no longer running. Restarting the server and I'm good for a few more days. Bad sign!
Reason 1.5) I'm only monitoring about 300 devices at this point with about a half dozen items being checked every 5 minutes. Required server performance is 5 per second. I think the first computer I ever built could have handled that. The ultimate goal would have been to monitor 4000 devices. If I'm having trouble with a fraction of my network I can't afford to jack with it to get the entire thing in there.
Reason 2) The method to change host names to an snmp value does not work. I followed the instructions but they remain named by IP addresses. I found a forum post with someone having the same issue and the response he got was and I quote "that's weird".
Reason 3) SNMP values are not searchable. I need the ability to find devices by different oid's and I cannot do that with this software. Inventory items would have worked but some genius decided to code this feature as disabled by default and the mass update does not work. When choosing to mass update the changes are not applied.
Reason 4) The documentation sucks!
Reason 5) And this might be petty but a new user posts a question to this forum and has to wait several days for it to be checked by a moderator before posted?? What if I had a real emergency that I needed help with? I've belonged to hundreds of forums over the years and have never come across anything like that.
Reason 6) You get what you pay for I guess.
Thanks for listening to my rant.. It was nice meeting the 2 or 3 of you that actually responded to my questions. I'm now off to look for some other crappy software that fits the "free" budget my boss gave me. Wish me luck, or don't... I don't care.
Reason 1) Installed it on a brand new server running ubuntu 14. Nothing else installed. After 2 weeks of testing it crashes about every 2-3 days with a message that the zabbix server is no longer running. Restarting the server and I'm good for a few more days. Bad sign!
Reason 1.5) I'm only monitoring about 300 devices at this point with about a half dozen items being checked every 5 minutes. Required server performance is 5 per second. I think the first computer I ever built could have handled that. The ultimate goal would have been to monitor 4000 devices. If I'm having trouble with a fraction of my network I can't afford to jack with it to get the entire thing in there.
Reason 2) The method to change host names to an snmp value does not work. I followed the instructions but they remain named by IP addresses. I found a forum post with someone having the same issue and the response he got was and I quote "that's weird".
Reason 3) SNMP values are not searchable. I need the ability to find devices by different oid's and I cannot do that with this software. Inventory items would have worked but some genius decided to code this feature as disabled by default and the mass update does not work. When choosing to mass update the changes are not applied.
Reason 4) The documentation sucks!
Reason 5) And this might be petty but a new user posts a question to this forum and has to wait several days for it to be checked by a moderator before posted?? What if I had a real emergency that I needed help with? I've belonged to hundreds of forums over the years and have never come across anything like that.
Reason 6) You get what you pay for I guess.
Thanks for listening to my rant.. It was nice meeting the 2 or 3 of you that actually responded to my questions. I'm now off to look for some other crappy software that fits the "free" budget my boss gave me. Wish me luck, or don't... I don't care.
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