Zabbix is on YouTube

[MrKen]

For anyone evaluating Zabbix or still trying to work out what is what, I found this video presentation on youtube. You'll need a spare 58:57 minutes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwlAVthcLrs

Nice to see some Zabbix on Youtube at last.

MrKen

[nelsonab]

It's a good video overall, but there are some inconsistencies. I think it would be a good idea to catalog them as a sort of addendum.

When I watched the video a while ago I was amazed to hear him say that Zabbix SIA is releasing Zabbix appliance boxes. :-) Perhaps that might not be a bad idea to do....

[jthakrar]

I have created a Zabbix Virtual Appliance and is available at Mikoomi.com.
I intend to keep on improving the appliance and adding more "monitoring capabilities/agents" to it.
In this initial version here's what you get in the appliance -

- Zabbix 1.8 (with a small fix from 1.8.1 that fixes a bug in template import)
- Ubuntu LAMP 9.10 (Karmic)
- DB2 Express-C (Free DB2 edition) -for DB2 monitoring

The web-site had download for the appliance as well as flash videos for setup and configuration (which is minimal).

Some of the "enhancements" that I have done include a weekly maintenance that does MySQL datafile optimization, seperating the different tables into their own tablespaces, keeping all the binaries, configuration, log and other files under /home/zabbix.

Since this is in the US and the Virtual Appliance is about 3.7 GB, I think it might be easier to make it available "closer" to other sites, say in Europe.

Will appreciate any feedback that you can provide regarding the appliance.

-- Jayesh

[jthakrar]

Apologies to everyone who may have downloaded the files from the ftp site, got the VM up and running but were having problems after going through the setup.

Essentially, there was a bug in the setup script which caused the network configuration file to be faulty.

Below is a sample of how a good Ubuntu network configuration file should look like.

The "fault" would most likely cause your VM not to boot up after running through the setup. So you will have to either disable your network interface or re-import the appliance.

Once you have done the above, either you can edit your network file generated by the setup.sh script manually or replace the setup.sh script with the attached file (the file is called setup.sh.txt - copy it to your virtual machine and rename it to setup.sh and also set execute permissions on the file).


##############################################
# Thu Mar 4 21:43:05 CST 2010
# Created by Mikoomi based on user-input
##############################################

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.51.21
# network - this was empty before - need to set it to the user-input value.
# network
network 192.168.51.0
broadcast 192.168.51.255
gateway 192.168.51.254
dns-nameservers 192.168.51.254

##############################################