Continuing the Zabbix series, there are some machines I want to monitor that are behind firewalls or NAT devices I do not control. Thus, I cannot use any passive Zabbix services, and my agent must be active only. This means that the agent connects every few minutes to the Zabbix […]
In this post, I’ll go over how to set up Zabbix for a SMTP mail server. I assume you have already followed my previous post and have a running Zabbix server. Preparation To install the Zabbix agent on a Ubuntu based system, you need to follow step 2.a. from their […]
Recently, I’ve had a number of issues with multiple servers, and decided to set up monitoring to help keep track of problems. I chose Zabbix based on the recommendation of Tom Lawrence, as being in the MSP business his recommendations are generally good to follow unless you have a very […]
I’ve been experimenting with Zabbix recently. Unfortunately, as with most things, just following the documentation to install it is a chore. I ended up at the step where I need to import data into my new MySQL database: Of course, it didn’t exist! Luckily, thanks to a post by a […]