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Installing Zabbix 2.0 package from EPEL on CentOS 6.4
As promised from my previous post on Installing CentOs on VirtualBox, this post will be focused on simple step by step installation guide of Zabbix monitoring tool on CentOS. As of the writing of this...
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Deploy zabbix agent and Monitor on Windows Server
This post is in continuation of my earlier post on ‘How to install Zabbix on CentOS‘ and here I will show us how to deploy the Zabbix agent on a Windows machine and add the server into Zabbix so we can...
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How to find Perfmon counter key values for Zabbix
This post is simply to show us how to find a Perfmon counter key value for use when adding a Perfmon counter in Zabbix. - On your Windows server, click Start > Administrative Tools > Performance...
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Add Active Directory perfmon counters in zabbix
As earlier promised, I will be showing us how to add Perfmon counters in Zabbix. For the purpose of this post, I will start by adding monitor for DNS Port (53); DNS Queries Received/sec and setup a...
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Add SMTP monitors on zabbix
As part of my series of setting up monitors on zabbix, I will share some of the counters I have configured on my zabbix server to monitor the SMTP servers. As I had earlier shown in previous post the...
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Add monitor for mission critical application service in Zabbix
If you are running a service based mission critical applications on a Windows server and you would like to be notified immediately when the application service(s) goes down, then this post is for you...
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Auto restart Windows service using zabbix
In the event that a critical application service stops unexpectedly or fails to start up for unknown reasons or your web server fails to respond and you are no where near your system, you can setup...
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Zabbix server is not running alert
In some occasions after installing Zabbix server, the following message gets displayed at the home screen: Zabbix server is not running: the information displayed may not be current This issue is...
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Monitor Windows Server 2008 Recycle Bin using Zabbix
I was recently given a task to capture the total size of deleted items in Recycle Bin for all user profiles on a server and report an alert when it reaches the defined threshold irrespective of the...
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How to change Zabbix database password
In this post, I will show you 2 simple steps on how to change the zabbix DB password from “zabbix” to something else. This comes in handy when you are running zabbix in a LIVE environment and you want...
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Powershell command to monitor disk fragmentation level using Zabbix
I love zabbix a lot because of its ease of use and the simplicity of the configuration when it comes to monitoring anything. I recently added a monitor to check the fragmentation level of volumes on a...
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Install and Configure JMX using Zabbix Java Gateway
With the introduction of Zabbix 2.0 & above, the ability to monitor JMX counters without deploying additional software has been introduced in the form of a daemon called “Zabbix Java Gateway“. The...
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I recently came across an issue where I re-installed zabbix agent on a Linux machine and tried to start it up but got the following error messages: Starting Zabbix agent: zabbix_agentd [10808]: user...
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# vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf DBHost=localhost DBName=zabbix DBUser=zabbix DBPassword=zabbix
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