Friday, September 29, 2006
Monitor servers with Ubuntu and Zabbix
Zabbix is a nifty service monitoring application that also keeps a history of each machine, so it can be used for trend analysis as well as "normal" monitoring. It can be used to monitor just about anything, and uses a client agent for windows, linux, BSD, Solaris and others. I use it for an easy to use overview of how all the servers are keeping, and its useful to have a look at when users start moaning, because at a glance you can see what is happening. It can also send alerts based on a huge range of criteria, so you could know before the users even get a chance to moan. This installation is using an Ubuntu (6.0.6 Dapper) virtual machine to do the monitoring. Ive made a 2Gb HDD, and given it 64M of RAM, which should be enough.
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# posted by picdout @ 08:48 
