Setting up the Zabbix monitoring system

DOI: 10.31673/2518-7678.2020.021220

Abstract

This article describes how to set up monitoring for different networking and network devices with different monitoring methods. Create templates to quickly configure many of the same observations. This system has a sufficient number of monitoring methods for network devices: Zabbix agent deployed on monitored network devices for active local monitoring of resources and applications. Agent are supported on: Linux, IBM AIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows. JMX is used to monitor applications that use JMX. The contractor that monitors JMX applications is a JAVA daemons, called the JAVA Zabbix Gateway. When Zabbix wants to know the value of the JMX counter, it simply queries the JMX gateway and the gateway does all the work for Zabbix. All requests are made using the Oracle JMX Management API. SNMP monitoring, this method is actually the standartd for many devices and program. The schematic of the underlying architecture is straightforward. It is often the only reasonable way that anyone can extract monitoring information from network switches, UPS batteries. IPMI monitoring is a hardware specification, i.e. “software independent” which means that it is not in any way connected to the BIOS. SSH monitoring, enables Zabbix to run servers without the use of an agent. This special functionality is of great value because it allows us to execute remote commands on a device that does not support Zabbix agent.

Keywords: zabbix, snmp, jmx, ipmi, templates, monitoring, agent, charts, data, items, name, status, SSH.

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