Zabbix running, what now?

[natreen]

Are there any good tutorials out there where it it explained what easy things can be done after the first start of Zabbix?

I just installed Zabbix on Ubuntu, it´s running and I already added one of our Windows servers. But I can´t get any data from it, even "availability" is "unknown".

I don´t want to use agents that I would need to install on our servers. I just want to see simple availability, cpu, ram and some easy stuff over snmp. Is this possible with Zabbix? And if so, how?

[jfprieur]

I don't see why you don't want to use agents but you can always set up and use SNMP instead.

FYI, after installing the server and the agents on my hosts, I got all the info you wanted without any extra config on my part, the default set of triggers is more than enough to get you started, if you use the agents.

[natreen]

Thanks for your reply. I will test an agent then. I tested PRTG before that doesn´t use agents as well and I also thought about getting information about some switche where I can´t install an agent.

I tested a lot with SNMP so far but couldn´t get it running so far. The "items" tab doesn´t work properly, I get an "memory exhausted" or similar. Also the front page says "zabbix server working = no"...

[xavierscha]

Think that memory problem will be fixed if you increase the memory_limit to 128M in the php.ini file. Had the same problem myself in the items section.

[natreen]

That is fixed now, thanks

But... I still don´t see any data. I created a host, I created an item (proc.num[iexplore.exe]), everything is linked together, the agent is running on the windows system, but I still see nothing. Shouldn´t I see something under the "latest data" tab? This has been empty since I installed this system last week...