Hi, Quick question...
In my previous company we used NetCool for our monitoring.
This was configured to listen for alerts coming from the servers being monitored.
e.g.
Server_X would scan log files, like /var/adm/messages, and if there was a problem (e.g. "/var usage > 95%") that server would fire off a message to NetCool with some warning text and a severity alert level. Something like
["Warning: /var usage is > 90% (95%)", "3"]
(So, the "alert message, the (actual usage)" and "the severity level")
The NetCool display would then pop up an alert in the summary list with the appropriate colour/alert levels, etc.
My current company is using Zabbix and I was wondering if Zabbix is able to do the same sort of monitoring, e.g. reacting to an incoming alert from a server, rather than actively polling the server(s) for issues?
The zabbix server we're using (running 1.8.10) is getting a little sluggish these days, probably from all the hosts and services it's monitoring so I'm looking for ways to try and minimise the traffic in/out of the Zabbix server (as well as the servers being monitored)...
Cheers,
Rob.
In my previous company we used NetCool for our monitoring.
This was configured to listen for alerts coming from the servers being monitored.
e.g.
Server_X would scan log files, like /var/adm/messages, and if there was a problem (e.g. "/var usage > 95%") that server would fire off a message to NetCool with some warning text and a severity alert level. Something like
["Warning: /var usage is > 90% (95%)", "3"]
(So, the "alert message, the (actual usage)" and "the severity level")
The NetCool display would then pop up an alert in the summary list with the appropriate colour/alert levels, etc.
My current company is using Zabbix and I was wondering if Zabbix is able to do the same sort of monitoring, e.g. reacting to an incoming alert from a server, rather than actively polling the server(s) for issues?
The zabbix server we're using (running 1.8.10) is getting a little sluggish these days, probably from all the hosts and services it's monitoring so I'm looking for ways to try and minimise the traffic in/out of the Zabbix server (as well as the servers being monitored)...
Cheers,
Rob.
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