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over 3 years ago Avatar
Gets the job done, but what a headache.

    by GrumpyOldMan

I am currently using Zabbix to monitor a half dozen Ubuntu servers for a website. It does the main things it needs to do: it monitors machine status, displays graphs of various statistics like load average and net activity, and sends email in the event of disaster.

However, Zabbix is an utter nightmare to set up. The documentation is extremely sparse and often simply doesn't match reality. The monitoring web site is horribly slow and has ... [More] limited configuration. If your client/server connection configuration is incorrect by a single typo, you often get no feedback about what you've done wrong -- you simply get no monitoring at all.

During periods of very high server load or network activity, the monitoring software frequently loses packets, leaving blank spots in your graphs and false alarms in your pager.

Yet after all of this complaining, I continue to use Zabbix, probably because it took so long to set up that I fear touching anything at this point. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Zabbix is the best monitoring system

  by reloadhot

Zabbix is a great Network Management System. It has all what I want:
- SNMP v1, v2, v3
- own agent collect information from Linux, Windows ...
- great web interface written in PHP
- generate alert, graphs, SLA
- well documented
- very stable !!!

New in v 1.6:
- Zabbix proxy = it's a gateway to forward results from agent to master server, great for distributed monitoring
- Nice graphs = 2D and 3D
- ... [More] Support IPMI
- Optimized SQL for better speed
- and many more.

I am using Zabbix for about 2 years a I can say its perfect. I think it's a best monitoring system I ever seen. [Less]

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