Zabbix Monitoring Solution

Zabbix Monitoring Solution

This appliance solves the issues of quick data gathering of historical performance and SLA (Service Level Agreement) and OLA (Operation Level Agreement) data and proactive system monitoring. Deployment of this virtual appliance solves many of the Information System support issues before even users notice. Improvement in reaction times, resolution of incidents, implementation of service level management and loads of improvement in IT based business reliability are just few of the reasons to go after ZABBIX monitoring appliance. The full depoyment takes less than 1 hour which is considerably lower than for any other network monitoring application.
This appliance was built on FreeBSD operating system in a manner that allows to deploy it as a component of existing IT infrastructure. Standard templates in the monitoring application also make the deployment quick and easy.
Quick Setup guide:
Decompressed size of appliance on VMware Hosted product family is 2.09GB. Please make sure that you have enough disk space. Maximum size of Virtual Hard Disk Drive is 8192 MB (reserved for statistics data collection).
The default IP address of appliance is 192.168.0.100/24, it needs to be changed according to your network configuration. It is NOT recommended to use DHCP for this appliance as for any other networking infrastructure service.Steps for changing IP address and default security account’s credentials:1) wait until appliance boots and text console appears2) log in with following credentials:2.a. username: admin2.b. password: p@ssw0rd3) switch user to “root”3.a. enter the following command: “su -” (without quotation marks)3.b. when prompted for password, enter the same password as for admin account in step 2)4) edit the /etc/rc.conf file to set the IP configuration that corresponds to your network5) reboot the appliance6) You need to change “Server IP” value in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf and /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf to the IP address that you assigned to appliance7) Check if zabbix_agentd and zabbix_server processes are running. You can do it by running “ps fax grep zabbix” command or any other way. If not, you have to launch these by running “zabbix_agentd” and “zabbix_server” commands8) Open Internet browser from your workstation and open a connection to IP address that you assigned to appliance, using http protocol (for default config connect to http://192.168.0.100)9) Log in to web console by using the following credentials:9.a. Username: admin9.b. Password: lala10) To deploy zabbix agent on MS Windows 32bit operating system based computer, you may download agent installation package from the appliance at http://IP_Address_Assigned_To_Appliance/ZabbixW32.exe11) To deploy zabbix agents for other OS, you have to download them from web-site http://www.zabbix.com/download.php
Detailed reference manual on Zabbix may be downloaded at following location: http://www.zabbix.com/Zabbix%20Manual.pdfAppliance details, download links and documentation: http://www.checkit.lv/?page=2&val=3&mn=0&action=9&art=3
4. Licensing info:ZABBIX - GNU GPL; http://www.fsf.org/licenses/FreeBSD - GNU GPL; http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/COPYINGApache - Apache License, compatible with GNU GPL; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0PHP - PHP License; http://lv2.php.net/license/3_0.txtMySQL - Dual license - this one for Open Source application distribution licenses as GPL http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/
Last updated: May 27, 2006
Operating system: FreeBSD 4.11
Applications installed:Apache 1.3.34 PHP 5 MySQL 14.7 ZABBIX 1.1beta9