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ENTERPRISE-CLASS

MONITORING

SOLUTION FOR

EVERYONE

ALL-IN-ONE

OPEN-SOURCEDISTRIBUTED MONITORING



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CONTENTSAbout Zabbix Software .............................................. 2Main Functions ........................................................ 3Architecture ............................................................. 4Installation Requirements ............................................. 5Advantages of Zabbix Solution .................................... 6Release Cycle .......................................................... 6Useful Sources ......................................................... 7

Some Facts

• “Best of Breed” – 2nd time nominee by Gartneramong the world’s best low cost monitoringsolutions

• Over 1 million downloads every year • More than 100,000 users and growing• Zabbix interface is available in more than 25 of the

most commonly used languages

Reasons to Choose Zabbix

A solid monitoring solutionfor multiple OS platforms

• Cross-platform• Extensive customisation

capabilities of Zabbixallow to integrate it in anyenvironment

• Modularity and exibility

True open-source software

• No vendor lock-in• Free for commercial and

non-commercial use• Phenomenal Zabbix

community support fromthousands of membersaround the world

Scaling to largeenvironments

• Able to process more than3,000,000 checks perminute

• Scales up to hundreds ofthousands of monitored

devices• Reliable commercial support

About Zabbix SoftwareZabbix Monitoring Solution is the ultimate enterprise-level open-source monitoring software. It is designed for monitoringavailability and performance of IT infrastructure components. Zabbix is capable of monitoring an unlimited number of metricsand provide sophisticated analytics on the health of IT infrastructure. Being able to identify the “source” of an IT system problemallows Zabbix users to act fast and reduce costs associated with downtimes.

Network Automation. Remote commands in Zabbix – it is a powerful mechanism for smart proactive monitoring. If youcongure an action with remote commands, Zabbix will automatically execute a certain predened script for problem solving.

Global Recognition. Zabbix Monitoring Solution is used worldwide by a vast number of companies that have chosen Zabbixdue to its real scalability, high and robust performance, ease of use, exibility, and, of course, extremely low total cost ofownership (TCO).

Read more about Zabbix Software on http://www.zabbix.com/product.php

Zabbix at a GlanceZabbix is the ultimate enterprise-class monitoring solution with the following characteristics:

• All-in-one solution• Monitors performance and availability of networks, applications and cloud resources• Supports small to very large distributed environments• Supports wide variety of architectures• Sends notications or executes remote commands in case of current or potential problems• Rich visualization capabilities, featured by dashboard, custom graphs and network maps• Provides distributed monitoring options with the use of Zabbix proxies

Zabbix is a completely open-source* product with no vendor lock-in, suitable for use in environments of any size.

* Zabbix Monitoring Solution is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2).

http://www.zabbix.com/product.php

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Main Functions

Data storage

Once Zabbix has gathered the data it doesn’t throw

it away, but stores it for later analysis, which can bereused further for billing, custom reporting, forecastingor any other purpose. Several methods of collectingperformance and availability information aboutmonitored infrastructure are available in Zabbix:

• Agentless monitoring• Zabbix agent• SNMP and IPMI agents• Custom monitoring• VMware monitoring• Web scenarios• Java applications

• Database monitoring• Calculated and aggregate information• Internal performance

Notication

Zabbix allows not only to collect, store and analyze

information about monitored environment, but also toinform responsible personnel about occurred incidentsthrough a variety of notication methods:

• by e-mail• by SMS• by Jabber • further notications can be scripted and customized

depending on the context (examples: Skype, instantmessaging, voice, etc.)

Powerful escalation module supports building ofcomplicated workows to assist delivering only

relevant alert information to responsible personnel atthe right time.

Visualisation

Zabbix offers rich visualisation capabilities that allow working with your data faster and smarter. Zabbix visualisationprovides:

• User-dened screens and slide shows• Mapping

• Graphing (including pie charts)

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Data gathering

Zabbix offers great performance for data gathering and can be scaled to very large environments. Data is gatheredusing various methods, including Zabbix native agents and agentless options: SNMPv1, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, IPMI,WMI, trappers, SSH, Telnet, web checks.

Full list and details on Zabbix functionality are available at http://www.zabbix.com/functionality.php

http://www.zabbix.com/functionality.php

http://www.zabbix.com/functionality.php



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Architecture

Zabbix Proxy

Zabbix proxy is a special process that

collects data on behalf of Zabbix server,taking some processing load off the server.

Zabbix proxy runs as a daemon process.

Zabbix Agent

Zabbix agent is a process deployed onmonitoring targets to actively monitor localresources and applications (hard drives,memory, processor statistics, network, lesystems, etc).

The agent gathers operational informationlocally and reports data to Zabbix serverfor further processing.

Zabbix agents are extremely efcientbecause of use of native system calls forgathering information.

Zabbix Agent | Modes

Advantages of passive mode:

1. Ease of setup2. Support for data collection with exible intervals3. Intuitiveness in communication

(request <-> response).4. Simpler troubleshooting

Advantages of active mode:

1. Can be used behind NAT2. Data buffering3. Reduce load on Zabbix server. No load on Zabbix

pollers4. More secure

Passive mode Active mode



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Installation Requirements

CPU | Examples of hardware congurationZabbix server and Zabbix database may require signicant CPU resources depending on number of monitored parametersand chosen database engine.

Software | Back-end storageZabbix is built around a modern Apache or Nginx web server, leading database engines, and PHP scripting language.

Using Zabbix it is possible to store information in different databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite and IBM DB2.

SizingThe table below contains real examples of required disc sizing for the most commonly used parameters:

Name Platform Vendor /Server model

Database Monitoredhosts

Small CentOS Virtual Appliance SQLite 100

Medium CentOS HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 E3-1240v2 1P 8GB-U P222 Hot Plug4 LFF 350W 1TB x 2 SAS 7.2 PSServer(675422-001)

MySQL InnoDB 500

Large Red Hat EnterpriseLinux

HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 E5-2440v2 2P 64GB-R B320i/512 8SFF 600GBx4 6G SAS 10K 460WRPS Svr/S-Buy(747094-S01)

RAID10 MySQL InnoDB orPostgreSQL

>1000

Very large Red Hat EnterpriseLinux

HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 E5-2650 2.0GHz 8-core 2P 256GB-RP420i/2GB 800GBx4 SSD FBWC750W RPS US Server (709943-001)

Fast RAID10 MySQL InnoDBor PostgreSQL

>10000

Example of parameters (size) Amount of history

(per month)

Amount of trends

(per year)

Amount of

conguration

100 hosts 10 GB 2 GB 1 GB

1 000 hosts 80 GB 17 GB 1.3 GB

10 000 hosts 690 GB 150 GB 3 GB

100 000 hosts 4.5 TB 1.3 TB 5 GB

* Assuming 50 metrics per host checked every 60 seconds



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Advantages of Zabbix Solution

Technical benets

• Quick and easy installation• All-in-one solution• Real-time monitoring

• Suitable for environments of any size• Flexibility• Instant notication mechanism• Anomaly detection• Superb community support

1 Zabbix LTS (Long Term Support) release.

Zabbix LTS releases are supported for Zabbixcustomers during ve (5) years i.e. 3 years of FullSupport (general, critical and security issues) and2 additional years of Limited Support (critical andsecurity issues only). Zabbix LTS version release willresult in change of the rst version number.

Release Cycle

Zabbix team is committed to a program of scheduled releases on a six-month basis. Every six months Zabbix releases a newstable version.

The continuous frequency of Zabbix releases

During every year and a half Zabbix releases:

Read more about Zabbix Life Cycle & Release Policy at http://www.zabbix.com/life_cycle_and_release_policy.php

Business benets

• Low TCO• No vendor lock-in• Satisfaction with performance and scalability

• Network visibility• Access to professional support services• Improvement of customer experience• Reliable commercial support

2 Zabbix Standard releases.

Standard Zabbix releases are supported for Zabbixcustomers during six (6) months of Full Support(general, critical and security issues) until the nextZabbix stable release, plus one (1) additional monthof Limited Support (critical and security issues only).Zabbix Standard version release will result in changeof the second version number.

http://www.zabbix.com/life_cycle_and_release_policy.php

http://www.zabbix.com/life_cycle_and_release_policy.php



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