The Product
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Content
About Product
4
Elements
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Main Functions
23
Architecture
31
Installation and Deployment Options
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About Product
Introduction
5
History
6
License
8
Strategy
9
Competitive Benefits
10
Performance
11
Popularity
12
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So what’s the problem?
Introduction
 Cost of downtime is high
 Hard to manage untransparent environment
 Impossible to make wise planning & purchasing
Zabbix solves
all these issues
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History
2006
v. 1.1
2005
2004
2001
1998
Product
idea
First
GPL
release
v. 0.1
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1st
Stable
Version
release
v. 1.0
Zabbix SIA
Company
est.
XML Protocol
Active Checks
Logfile
Monitoring
Eventlog
Monitoring
GSM Modem
SNMPv3
History continued
v. 2.2
2012
2009
2008
2007
New Interface
Zabbix Proxy
SQLite
LDAP Auth
Network
Discovery
Dashboard
Maintenance
Web Monitoring
UTF8, IPv6
v. 1.4
LLD
API
Escallations
v. 1.6
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v. 2.0
v. 1.8
Multinamed Host
Configuration
Cache
Java Gateway
Passive Zabbix
Proxy
Automatic
Inventory
IBM DB2 Support
SNMP Trap
Monitoring
Calculated Items
JMX Monitoring
So
What Is
NEXT?
Better scalable
Enhanced
dashboard
Better navigation
Lua language
integration
Better reporting
GPLv2
License
True Open Source
No hidden | Corporate | Enteprise versions
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Strategy
 Stay Open Source
 Concentrate on enterprise-level companies,
while continue to be the best solution for small
and medium companies
 Deliver improvements regularly
 Listen to customers’ needs, while defining
strategy ourselves.
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Competitive Benefits
 Bundled package
 True Open Source
 Enterprise-friendly support pricing
 Monitor anything
 Distributed monitoring
 Commercially Backed
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Performance
Single
Zabbix
Node
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With a well structured set-up and
powerful hardware, allows to
process over 5000 new values per
second, which is equal to monitoring
of 50 000 devices against 10
parameters with 100 second interval
Popularity
737 464
times software was downloaded
during 11 months of 2012
Best of
Breed
Zabbix is nominated for the 2nd time
among world’s best monitoring
solutions according to Gartner
25
languages Zabbix interface is
translated to
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Elements
Host
14
Item
15
Trigger
17
Event
21
Template
22
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Host
Server or a network device
having IP or DNS name
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Item
Source of information
Zabbix Agent
Server polls
Zabbix Agent (Active)
Processed by Zabbix agent
Simple check
Executed by Zabbix server
SNMP agent
All SNMP versions are supported
Trapper
Used with Zabbix sender
Log files
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Internal
Zabbix health
Aggregate
Average/min/max for host group
External check
script[parameters]
SSH
Password and key authentication
supported
Telnet
Calculated
From existing data
Item | Flexibility
Units
 If set, K/M/G/T/P/E/Z/Y
prefix fill be added
 2048 -> 2KB
Multiplier
Data type
 Decimal, octal, hex
Value
Mapping
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Store value
 Store as is
 Delta
 Delta (speed per second)
 Useful for monitoring counters
Triger
Logical expression
representing problem
condition
6 severity levels
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Triger Expressions
Syntax
{host:key.function(param)}=0
{zabbix:system.cpu.load.avg(600)}>5
Operators
-, +, /, *, <, >, =, #, |, &
Functions
min, max, avg, last, diff, count, delta, time, etc
Not limited to single item or host
{host1:item1}=1 & {host2:item2}>3 | {host3:item3}<0
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Triger Dependencies
Alarm
CRM does’t respond
MySQL doesn’t respond
Alarm
Alarm
Linux on Host1 stopped
Alarm
Disk free space Host 1 = 0 Mb
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Real problem:
Disk is full
 Investigates the real cause of
multiple problems
 Skips dependent notifications
 Hides dependent triggers in the
frontend
Triger Hysteresis
Task:
Average server room temperature is 12-14ºC. Alarm if temperature exceeds 20
({TRIGGER.VALUE}=0 &
{server:temp.last(0)}>20) |
({TRIGGER.VALUE}=1 &
{server:temp.last(0)}>15)
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Event
Different sources:
 Triggers
 Discovery
 Autoregistration
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Template
A template is a set of elements that can be conveniently applied to manage
monitoring of multiple hosts.
Nested templates allow to manage different hosts efficiently.
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Main Functions
Collect
24
Store
25
Manage
26
Alert
27
Visualize
28
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Collect data
Data is gathered using various methods, including Zabbix native agents and agentless options: SNMP ver.1, 2, 3, IPMI, trappers, SSH, Telnet.
Any application that Customer depends on.
Applications
Middleware
OS
Network
Hardware
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Store data
 Relation database (MySQL, PostreSQL, Oracle, DB2,
SQLite)
 Unlimited amount of historical data
 Support of NoSQL storages (like Cassandra) is coming
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Manage data
History
Averaged historical data
Housekeeping
Built-in data reduction
Long term storage
Per-item retention periods
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Alert
Notification method:
 E-mail
 SMS
 Jabber
 Chat message
 Command Execution
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Flexible escallation
Visualize | Dashboard
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Visualize | Graphs
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Visualize | Maps
 Different available elements
 Easy editing
 Reference data
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Visualize | Screens
Compound pages
 Better context
 Large display for
helpdesk
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Architecture
Zabbix Server
32
Zabbix Proxy
33
Zabbix Agent
34
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Zabbix Proxy
Zabbix Server
Back-end
Database
Front-end
API
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Zabbix Proxy
 Zero maintenance
 Automatic creation of SQLite database
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Zabbix Agent
 Native agents
 Small footprint, low system resource usage
 Available for most platforms
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Zabbix Agent | Modes
Server
Request: CPU load
Request
frequency is
given by Server
Response: 1.95
Request: What to check?
Response: CPU load, ...
CPU load: 4.32
Fan speed (RPM): 3524
Free diskspace: 13 Gb
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Agent
Passive
mode
Active
mode
Request
frequency given
by Proxy
Installation and Demployment Options
Single server installation
37
Distributed installation
38
Single Node demployment
39
Distributed with Proxy demployment
40
Distributed with Nodes demployment
41
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Single Server
Single Server
Zabbix Back-end
Zabbix Front-End
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Database
Distributed across
Server 1
Zabbix Back-end
Server 2
Zabbix Front-End
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Server 3
Database
Headquarters
Single Node
Zabbix Server
Branch #2
?
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Headquarters
Distributed by Proxy
Zabbix Server
Branch #1
Active Zabbix Proxy
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Branch #2
Pasive Zabbix Proxy
Distributed by Nodes
Headquarters
MasterServer
Branch #2
Branch #1
Sub-branch
Slave Server
Zabbix Proxy
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Slave Server
Thank you for
attention!
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