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  • MrKen
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2008
    • 652

    #1

    Zabbix is on YouTube

    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!



    Nice to see some Zabbix on Youtube at last.

    MrKen
    Disclaimer: All of the above is pure speculation.
  • nelsonab
    Senior Member
    Zabbix Certified SpecialistZabbix Certified Professional
    • Sep 2006
    • 1233

    #2
    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....
    RHCE, author of zbxapi
    Ansible, the missing piece (Zabconf 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5T9NidjjDE
    Zabbix and SNMP on Linux (Zabconf 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PEHpLFVHM

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    • jthakrar
      Member
      • Oct 2009
      • 43

      #3
      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

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      • jthakrar
        Member
        • Oct 2009
        • 43

        #4
        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

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