Getting Zabbix for Windows Environment

[mulliganx]

Looking to try and talk mgmnt into getting Zabbix for Windows Environment.

Figure all I need is to make a linux VM, install Zabbix server on that and point it to one of our windows servers to install an agent to.

From there I can configure how the notifications will come up?

Ubuntu server ok for this? Also any good ideas to mention on -why- we should use zabbix in windows environment?

What risks are there to production environment?

Thanks

[tchjts1]

Figure all I need is to make a linux VM, install Zabbix server on that and point it to one of our windows servers to install an agent to.

From there I can configure how the notifications will come up?

Ubuntu server ok for this? Also any good ideas to mention on -why- we should use zabbix in windows environment?

What risks are there to production environment?

Thanks

You are basically on target. Ubuntu is fine. You manually install agents to servers... unless you have some type of software packaging/distribution tool.

Yes, you can configure notifications through alert thresholds and other conditions. Very customizable.

A good selling point for Zabbix to monitor Windows, is the fact that you can easily go against the Windows-native PerfMon counters and pull that data back into a graph format.

Production environment risks? None come to mind. I've implemented Zabbix at 2 very large retail companies (Fortune 500) and can say that Zabbix has never been the cause of any production issues. On the other hand, I can say that Zabbix has prevented many production issues.

And even minus the alerting/notification capabilities of Zabbix, there is great value in being able to look at history and trend data across your monitored servers. I can't count the times an application team has said - "we need to see what was happening on server xxxxxx last night at 2am". Couple clicks of a mouse button and they have all the data in front of them.