3 Zabbix features

Overview

Zabbix is a highly integrated network monitoring solution, offering a multiplicity of features in a single package.

Data gathering

• availability and performance checks
• support for SNMP (both trapping and polling), IPMI, JMX, VMware monitoring
• custom checks
• gathering desired data at custom intervals
• performed by server/proxy and by agents

Flexible threshold definitions

• you can define very flexible problem thresholds, called triggers, referencing values from the backend database

Highly configurable alerting

• sending notifications can be customized for the escalation schedule, recipient, media type
• notifications can be made meaningful and helpful using macro variables
• automatic actions include remote commands

Real-time graphing

• monitored items are immediately graphed using the built-in graphing functionality

Web monitoring capabilities

• Zabbix can follow a path of simulated mouse clicks on a web site and check for functionality and response time

Extensive visualization options

• ability to create custom graphs that can combine multiple items into a single view
• network maps
• slideshows in a dashboard-style overview
• reports
• high-level (business) view of monitored resources

Historical data storage

• data stored in a database
• configurable history
• built-in housekeeping procedure

Easy configuration

• add monitored devices as hosts
• hosts are picked up for monitoring, once in the database
• apply templates to monitored devices

Use of templates

• grouping checks in templates
• templates can inherit other templates

Network discovery

• automatic discovery of network devices
• agent autoregistration
• discovery of file systems, network interfaces and SNMP OIDs

Fast web interface

• a web-based frontend in PHP
• accessible from anywhere
• you can click your way through
• audit log

Zabbix API

• Zabbix API provides programmable interface to Zabbix for mass manipulations, third-party software integration and other purposes.

Permissions system

• secure user authentication
• certain users can be limited to certain views

Full featured and easily extensible agent

• deployed on monitoring targets
• can be deployed on both Linux and Windows

Binary daemons

• written in C, for performance and small memory footprint
• easily portable

Ready for complex environments

• remote monitoring made easy by using a Zabbix proxy