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3 Zabbix features
Overview
Zabbix is a highly integrated network monitoring solution, offering a multiplicity of features in a single package.
- 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
- 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
- monitored items are immediately graphed using the built-in graphing functionality
- 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
- data stored in a database
- configurable history
- built-in housekeeping procedure
- add monitored devices as hosts
- hosts are picked up for monitoring, once in the database
- apply templates to monitored devices
- grouping checks in templates
- templates can inherit other templates
- automatic discovery of network devices
- agent autoregistration
- discovery of file systems, network interfaces and SNMP OIDs
- a web-based frontend in PHP
- accessible from anywhere
- you can click your way through
- audit log
- Zabbix API provides programmable interface to Zabbix for mass manipulations, third-party software integration and other purposes.
- 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
- written in C, for performance and small memory footprint
- easily portable
Ready for complex environments
- remote monitoring made easy by using a Zabbix proxy