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The MonitoringIt's Zabbix
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Let's discuss today...
● Monitoring, Zabbix – what's all that?● What Zabbix has to offer● Working on a new version – 2.4● Community
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I'll be glad to help you
● Write down your questions
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History of Zabbix
● 1998 – development starts● 2001 – first public version● 2005 – supporting company founded● 2012 – branch in Japan opened
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Licensing
● True opensource– No “enterprise” version, proprietary addons etc
● Promise to keep it that way
OpenCore
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Agentless
Native agent
Visualisation
Alerting
Data storage
Web monitoring
Main functionality
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Monitoring what?
● IT infrastructure● Nearly anything else
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Monitoring – common things
– Servers
– Software
– Network devices
– …
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Citrix
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Data collection
● Native agents● SNMP● IPMI● ...many more
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Zabbix native agent
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Direction of communication
Server
Active
Passive
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Agent capabilities
● CPU● Memory● Filesystem● ...more than 70 different things built-in
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Agentless methods
● TCP checks● SNMP● IPMI● JMX● SSH, telnet
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Advanced methods
● Calculated
Total – free = used
● Aggregate
Total free diskspace for all fileservers
Average qps for all database servers
5000qps 1000qps 9000qps
Aggregate value = 5000 qps
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What's a problem?
● Extremely flexible problem conditions– Check multiple values across several hosts
– Comparison, math, boolen logic
● Functions last, min, max, avg, delta etc● 6 severity levels
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Flexible problem definitions
● Average over last 10 minutes, count of matching values over last 30 minutes
● Average for the last hour relative to the same hour day/two days/week ago
● Check multiple hosts
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Notifications
● Email● SMS● Jabber/XMPP
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Escalate a lot
● Repeated messages● Escalate to management (based on ack) or
automated commands● Custom contents (escalation history...)
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Configuration templating
● Manage uniform config across many hosts● Variable usage
Web server
Template_MySQL Template_Apache
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Bundled frontend
● Monitoring● Visualisation● Configuration
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Visualisation
● Simple graphs built-in, custom graphs● Network maps● Screens
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Graphing
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Network maps
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All the / small things
● Value mapping● Regexp builder
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Value mapping
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Regexp builder
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Web scenarios
● Speed, response time● Check for content, parse variables● Templatable
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Monitoring Java applications
Zabbix Java gateway
ApacheTomcat
GlassFish
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OpenFire heap memory
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Automatic system discovery
● Network discovery● Active agent auto-registration
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Extendability
● Run any command on the agent or server● Run any command in response to events● Feed timestamped data in Zabbix● No language restrictions
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Pushing custom values
● Sender
● Timestamps, multiple values from file
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Automating
● XML● API
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Upgrade policies
● No database changes in one major release● All old agents supported
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Zabbix proxy
● Remote environments● Limited connectivity● Still controlled by the server
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Slightly less common places
● Cinemas● Seaports● Lightning sensors
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Less common usage examples
● Zabbix development monitoring● Flying?● Using WWW?
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Zabbix translations
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SVN branch freeze status
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Zabbix 2.4 is near
● Multiple filters for LLD● Custom formula for action conditions● Any headers for web monitoring
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Some more goodies
● Global search by technical name● Lots of configuration validation improvements● A lot of small improvements
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My favourite 2.4 feature
● Changing loglevel runtime● ...for individual processes● ...and also ability to dump web scenario details● ...and the same for Vmware monitoring
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● 12. - 13. septembris● Radisson BLU Daugava● Focus: performance, scaling
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Zabbix virtual appliance
● Based on OpenSUSE● Built with SUSE Studio● Easy way to try out Zabbix
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Monitoring meetup?
● HW vendors● Develop templates for your solution
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Communication
● IRC: #zabbix on Freenode● zabbix.com/forum● Visit us in the Zabbix office (Riga)
External photos (cc-licensed) by:
– NATS Press Office– Veni