New to Zabbix

[ACR]

Hi I am new to Zabbix, my goal is to monitor a windows server . So I need a tutorial on how to install zabbix agent and be able to monitor temperature , storage space, and if the server went off-line.I would like to start very simple and than customize.

[niveastn]

Hey, welcome!

All these links will explain in detail what you need

How to install zabbix agent: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...ckages/win_msi
Storage space, and if the server went off-line: https://www.zabbix.com/integrations/windows

Temperature is a bit more complicated.
Its server temperature? if it is and your server supports IPMI, you can apply one of these templates (look for your server in this list): https://share.zabbix.com/search-by/tags?value=IPMI
It does not support ipmi? I found a few options:

Windows Zabbix Agent supports WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) queries.

This allows you to create a Zabbix Agent check on the Windows machine that queries root\wmi for MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature which will return the CurrentTemperature in Kelvin times 10 (why Kelvin times 10? No clue). You can then convert the temperature by dividing by 10 and then subtracting 273.15 to get the temp in Celcius.

Here is the output from my machine:

wmic /namespace:\\root\wmi PATH MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature get CurrentTemperature CurrentTemperature 3010 3030

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https://github.com/craviee/zabbix-temperature-monitor-windows

[frank777]

Hello, Niveastn

I am new to Zabbix also, I have a question: Have you ever tried Zabbix appliance on VMware ESXi platform ? I found the document or articles or experience sharing related to Zabbix appliance is very less. Not so easy to reach out. Do you the reason ?

Regards,

Feng