While Zabbix can monitor a lot about the system state through agent and SNMP checks, there are situations where you may want to directly send a notification to Zabbix to inform it of a particular system state or notify it that an action has been performed. One example might be if you want to monitor … Read more
While VPNs are a great way to grant remote access to internal resources for a limited group of users, there are situations where you might want to expose an internal resource directly to the internet. For example, if you want to run a web or email server from inside your home or office you will … Read more
At the end of my previous article we had a functioning Zabbix server set up to monitor itself. To monitor other hosts, we will need to tell Zabbix about other devices on your network. The two main ways Zabbix can monitor a host are via an agent installed on the host or via SNMP. Generally … Read more
As your IT environments become larger and more complex, monitoring and alerting becomes a critical component of ensuring that your systems remain online and healthy. By collecting data about the state of your system you can be notified if a host goes down or get advance warning of an impending issue such as a disk … Read more