In a multi-site network you will most likely have VPNs connecting your sites, allowing remote connectivity to your main site. However, as these links are not necessarily 100% reliable, a dropped link could potentially result in the loss of monitoring data for a large number of hosts as the agent does not store any data … Read more
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
In the enterprise it is common practice for the network administrator to filter or block certain content which may be inappropriate for a work or educational environment. By using open source technology it is possible to implement DNS level content blocking for your home network. Why block content? There are several reasons why one might … Read more