Introduction to Zabbix

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Introducing Zabbix

SIA Zabbix

www.zabbix.com


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Nuremberg, October 28th - 29th 2009 2

Zabbix and endocrinology

Hans Selye, father of the stress theory

Distress

Eustress


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Why monitor?

Answer to distress

Why monitor (besides medical reasons)?


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Downtime Costs


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Nuremberg, October 28th - 29th 20095

What is Zabbix?

Distributed monitoring system

Centralised configuration


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History of Zabbix

Development started internally in a bank in 1998

First public opensource release in 2001

No hidden meaning in the name


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Today

1. Comparing with Nagios

2. How cool is Zabbix3. How is it doing?

4. Q & A


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Comparing with Nagios what's included

Integrated solution

Data retrieving

Historical data storage

Official web based frontend

Alerting, discovery

More


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Comparing with Nagios licensing

GPLv2

No proprietary addons, professional or

enterprise versions


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Comparing with Nagios code

ZabbixServer C C

Agents C Various

PHP Various

Custom checks Any Any

Nagios

Frontend


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Comparing with Nagios - details

Concepts

Technical differences


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About Zabbix

2. How cool is Zabbix?


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Basic architecture

Binary daemons

Web frontend

Distributed setup


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Agent availability

Tru64


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Web frontend monitoring

Viewing data


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Web frontend - graphs

Visualisation

Free simple graphs

Custom graphs


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Web frontend maps

Network maps

Elements

Connectors


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W b f d


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Web frontend screens

Seeing information in context


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W b f t d fi ti


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Web frontend configuration

Configure everything

Efficient actions

Shipped with Zabbix

D t th i di t


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Data gathering direct server

Simple

ICMP

TCP port

TCP service

SNMP

Traps

IPMI

D t th i Z bbi t


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Data gathering Zabbix agents

Official native agents

Passive (pull)

Active (push)

Lightweight Server

Active

Passive

D t th i t it


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Data gathering custom items

All so different yeah,

I say we're all the same

www.kjkoster.org/zapcat

Data storage


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Data storage

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQLite

Thresholds


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Thresholds

Triggers Expressions

{host:item.function}5000

Templating


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Templating

Easy large scale configuration

Template_MySQL MySQL server

Queries per second

{Template_MySQL:qps.avg(300)}>5000 {Server:qps.avg(300)}>5000

Graph

Queries per second

Multiple templates


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Multiple templates

Template_MySQL

Backup server

Template_Bacula

Template_PgSQL

Template_Postfix

E-mail server

Nested templates


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Nested templates

Template_PgSQL Template_Postfix

E-mail server 1

E-mail server 2

E-mail server 3

Template_E-mail server

Alerting


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Alerting

Flexible conditions

Choose your media

Alerting escalations


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Alerting escalations

Extremely flexible

Combined operations

Escalate it


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Escalate it

Immediately e-mail administrator

10 minutes send SMS to admin

15 minutes open report at helpdesk system

30 minutes e-email management

1 hour send SMS to management

2 hours restart Apache

6 hours reboot the server

24 hours power cycle whole server room

Alerting - macros


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Alerting macros

Send out useful messagesCustomise for recipients

Host inventory


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Host inventory

Notification macros

Network discovery


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Network discovery

Multiple protocols

Flexible actions

Conditions Operations

Host IP: 192.168.1-100.1-20 1. Add host

Responds to: SNMPv2 2. Add it to group switches

SNMP OID: SNMPv2-

MIB::sysDescr.0 containsGoodVendor

3. Link to template

GoodVendor 12345Mswitch

Web monitoring


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Web monitoring

Scenarios

Alerting

Visualisation


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Distributed monitoring


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Zabbix server ?



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st buted o to g

Zabbix server

Zabbix proxy

Nodes


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Riga

Paris Rome Istanbul

Lyon Toulouse

Upgrade policies


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Database strategy

Compatibility

Coming up next


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3. How is it doing?

It is alive and well


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1.8

Performance


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1.8

Faster Server

Proxy

1.6 1.80

2

4

6

8

10

Get me that report


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Bar reports


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Who did that?


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1.8Even more accountability

Lazy administrators


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1.8

Automated management

Lazy administrators


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1.8

Automated management

API


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1.8Zabcon

www.zabbix.com/wiki/doc/zabcon

API


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1.8Zabcon - hosts

Did I mention this?


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All functionality bundled

Questions and answers


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Q & A

Thank you


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The single most annoying problem in Zabbix isthat I don't have to wait 15 minutes before Cacti

spits out graphs. So I need to schedule coffee

breaks myself.

Zabbix user

www.zabbix.com#zabbix on freenode

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