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Zabbix release 2.2
A Closer Look
Network monitoring is increasingly important for small business and the SOHO sector. Identifying problems at an early stage increases availability and thus proactively saves money – regardless of your existing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
Zabbix
The Zabbix [1] monitoring solution has been under development since 2001 and shares a number of similarities with the well-known Nagios. Development of the GPL-licensed software is still largely controlled by Zabbix inventor Alexei Vladishev, who is also the CEO, owner, and product manager of Zabbix SIA, which offers commercial services related to Zabbix.
As with other monitoring tools of the genus, Zabbix optionally uses simple checks that can be accessed externally without installing additional software on the monitored hosts (i.e., standard services like SMTP, SSH, and HTTP). Alternatively, the download page offers several agents for all major operating systems such as Linux, BSD, AIX, Solaris, and Windows.
As a third option, Zabbix can also retrieve the required monitoring information using the SNMP or IPMI network management protocols built into all modern operating systems. The most important difference (compared with Nagios) is that the Zabbix web interface not only visualizes the information it collects but also lets you configure the hosts to be monitored in the web browser.
Like other monitoring solutions, Zabbix also sends email, text, or instant messages in the case of an incident. As the storage back end for the collected information, as well as for the configuration data of the monitored hosts, you can choose from MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, or SQLite. In terms of handling, Zabbix is characterized especially by its convenient ability to combine hosts, actions, items, and triggers, as well as its convenient management of
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