Introduction To Zabbix

Introducing Zabbix
SIA Zabbix
www.zabbix.com
Nuremberg, October 28th - 29th 2009
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Zabbix and endocrinology
Hans Selye, father of the stress theory
Distress
Eustress
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Why monitor?
Answer to distress
Why monitor (besides medical reasons)?
Downtime Costs
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What is Zabbix?
Distributed monitoring system
Centralised configuration
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History of Zabbix
Development started internally in a bank in 1998
First public opensource release in 2001
No hidden meaning in the name
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Today
1. Comparing with Nagios
2. How cool is Zabbix
3. How is it doing?
4. Q & A
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Comparing with Nagios what's included
Integrated solution
Data retrieving
Historical data storage
Official web based frontend
Alerting, discovery
More
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Comparing with Nagios licensing
GPLv2
No proprietary addons, professional or
enterprise versions
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Comparing with Nagios code
Zabbix
Server C C
Agents C Various
PHP Various
Custom checks Any Any
Nagios
Frontend
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Comparing with Nagios - details
Concepts
Technical differences
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About Zabbix
2. How cool is Zabbix?
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Basic architecture
Binary daemons
Web frontend
Distributed setup
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Agent availability
Tru64
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Web frontend monitoring
Viewing data
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Web frontend - graphs
Visualisation
Free simple graphs
Custom graphs
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Web frontend maps
Network maps
Elements
Connectors
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Web frontend screens
Seeing information in context

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Web frontend configuration
Configure everything
Efficient actions
Shipped with Zabbix

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Data gathering direct server
Simple
ICMP
TCP port
TCP service
SNMP
Traps
IPMI
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Data gathering Zabbix agents
Official native agents
Passive (pull)
Active (push)
Lightweight
Server
Active
Passive
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Data gathering custom items
All so different yeah,
I say we're all the same
www.kjkoster.org/zapcat
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Data storage
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle
SQLite
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Thresholds
Triggers
Expressions
{host:item.function}<10

MySQL:qps.avg(300)>5000
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Templating
Easy large scale configuration
Template_MySQL MySQL server
Queries per second
{Template_MySQL:qps.avg(300)}>5000
{Server:qps.avg(300)}>5000
Graph
Queries per second
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Multiple templates
Template_MySQL
Backup server
Template_Bacula
Template_PgSQL
Template_Postfix
E-mail server
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Nested templates
Template_PgSQL Template_Postfix
E-mail server 1
E-mail server 2
E-mail server 3
Template_E-mail server
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Alerting
Flexible conditions
Choose your media
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Alerting escalations
Extremely flexible
Combined operations
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Escalate it
Immediately e-mail administrator
10 minutes send SMS to admin
15 minutes open report at helpdesk system
30 minutes e-email management
1 hour send SMS to management
2 hours restart Apache
6 hours reboot the server
24 hours power cycle whole server room
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Alerting - macros
Send out useful messages
Customise for recipients
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Host inventory
Notification macros
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Network discovery
Multiple protocols
Flexible actions
Conditions Operations
Host IP: 192.168.1-100.1-20

1. Add host
Responds to: SNMPv2 2. Add it to group switches
SNMP OID: SNMPv2-
MIB::sysDescr.0 contains
GoodVendor
3. Link to template
GoodVendor 12345M
switch
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Web monitoring
Scenarios
Alerting
Visualisation
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Distributed monitoring
Zabbix server
?
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Distributed monitoring
Zabbix server
Zabbix proxy
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Nodes
Riga
Paris
Rome
Istanbul
Lyon Toulouse
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Upgrade policies
Database strategy
Compatibility
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Coming up next
3. How is it doing?
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It is alive and well
1.8
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1.8
Performance
Faster
Server
Proxy
1.6 1.8
0
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4
6
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1.8
Get me that report
Bar reports
1.8
I can show you a chart
Better graphs
Period selection
1.8
Who did that?
Even more accountability
1.8
Lazy administrators
Automated management
1.8
Lazy administrators
Automated management
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API
Zabcon
www.zabbix.com/wiki/doc/zabcon
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API
Zabcon - hosts
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Did I mention this?
All functionality bundled

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Questions and answers
Q & A
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Thank you
The single most annoying problem in Zabbix is
that I don't have to wait 15 minutes before Cacti
spits out graphs. So I need to schedule coffee
breaks myself.
Zabbix user
www.zabbix.com
#zabbix on freenode

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Introducing Zabbix

Historical data storage

Official web based frontend

Free simple graphs

Seeing information in context

Shipped with Zabbix

All functionality bundled

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