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Your network metrics is just the first step. Use the Zabbix aggregation function to aggregate collected values across a time period and gain new insights about your network infrastructure. Aggregate the collected traffic and collect minimum, maximum, and average values across a time period Calculate the sum traffic per each tenant or between multiple network interfaces Count the number of error or warning messages on your devices across a time period Resource discovery Discover your interfaces, power supplies, CPU cores, fans, and any other resource types by utilizing Zabbix low-level discovery features: Discover any resource type by utilizing any Zabbix data collection method Zabbix will automatically detect whether any resource has been added, removed, or changed Utilize low-level discovery filters and discover only the required resources Create dynamic problem thresholds for different resource types (e.g. trunk port or uplink port) Automatic device onboarding and offboarding Automatically discover your network devices and assign the appropriate monitoring template. Scan a network range and receive notifications when a new device is discovered Automatically onboard and offboard your devices React to an endpoint being reachable on a particular port or by using a specific protocol Automatically group the discovered hosts Zabbix comes pre-packaged with over 300 templates for the most popular network hardware vendors. Just select the appropriate template and assign it on your host to start monitoring your network. Get a quick technical overview Get started in 10 minutes - download Zabbix now Download ZabbixZabbix is a professionally developed open-source software with no limits or hidden costs

Can verify the availability and responsiveness of a standard service, such as notifications, or HTTP. Java management extensions (JMX), web monitoring and other methods are also alternatives to using agents. In Zabbix, JMX can be used to monitor Java-based applications. Web monitoring is used to check the availability of websites and supports HTTP and HTTPS. Zabbix collects data relating to the average download speed of a scenario, errors and error messages, response time and more. The Zabbix API The Zabbix application programming interface (API) is a web-based API to create new applications, automate tasks and integrate with third-party software, such as Go, Zabbix::Tiny or Zabbix sender. The JavaScript Object Notation format is used to base the API as a front-end web interface. The Zabbix API consists of many methods that are grouped together into separate APIs, each performing a specific service. For example, a method to create a new host is host.create; the method to log in as an admin is user.login. Utilizing the API, users can create applications to work with and display Zabbix information. Templates for monitoring capabilities Templates are custom-built add-ons that extend the functionality of Zabbix. Some templates are made by Zabbix and come packaged with the software ready for use, while others are built by Zabbix users. Templates enable Zabbix users to monitor network devices from vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP and Juniper. Other templates can be used to monitor IBM, HP and Super Micro servers. Templates for application-based services include MS Exchange, Zenoss and PowerDNS. Templates can be created to monitor OSes and hypervisors as well. Infrastructure monitoring competitors to Zabbix Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Nagios and Zenoss are examples of competing IT infrastructure monitoring systems. SCOM enables configuration, management and monitoring for an IT ecosystem through one management console. SCOM can monitor server hardware, system services, OSes, hypervisors and applications, similar to Zabbix. SCOM also uses agent-based and agentless monitoring similar to Zabbix. Nagios is another open source monitoring program for IT environments. Nagios can monitor Linux, Unix and Windows OSes. Nagios offers multiple products, such as Core, XI, Log Server, Network Analyzer and Fusion. Nagios can run active checks that are self-initiated and run passive checks that are completed using external applications. Nagios uses both agent-based and agentless monitoring as well. Zenoss is monitoring software available in two forms: Zenoss Core and Zenoss Service Dynamics. Zenoss Core is the

Zabbix-icmp-agentZabbix template and accompanying scripts for icmp monitoring done by agent. Allows multiple ping targets from single host and automatically generates items, triggers and graphs based on target list. Monitors max,avg,min rtt and loss. You can specify number of packets, interval and custom description.InstallationAgentCopy zaping shell script over to a machine with zabbix agent. Modify zabbix agent config as shown in zaping.conf. Restart zabbix agent.ServerImport the template for your zabbix version.If you are running zabbix older than 5 copy zabbix-icmp-lld to external scripts directory on your zabbix server. The template for zabbix 5 does not require the helper script anymore.How does it workThis template bypasses zabbix limitation of only allowing one template link per host by misusing low level discovery. To use it you have to link the template with a host and then define a special macro {$PINGTARGETS} on the host. This macro's contents is fed to the zabbix-icmp-lld script which returns LLD JSON. Zabbix generates items, triggers and graphs based on this data.Format of PINGTARGETS macro is ; separated list of targets with some other information about them: ; ; "> ; ; without the angle brackets, just separate the values by space

What is Zabbix? Zabbix is an open source monitoring software tool for diverse IT components, including networks, servers, virtual machines (VMs) and cloud services. Zabbix provides monitoring metrics, such as network utilization, CPU load and disk space consumption. The software monitors operations on Linux, Hewlett Packard Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris and other operating systems (OSes); however, Windows monitoring is only possible through agents. How Zabbix works Zabbix can be deployed for agent-based and agentless monitoring. Agents are installed on IT components to check performance and collect data. The agent then reports back to a centralized Zabbix management server. That information is included in reports or presented visually in the Zabbix graphical user interface (GUI). If there are any issues regarding what is being monitored, Zabbix will send a notification or alert to the user. Agentless monitoring accomplishes the same type of monitoring by using existing resources in a system or device to emulate an agent. The Zabbix web-based GUI enables users to view their IT environment via customizable dashboards based on widgets, graphs, network maps, slideshows and reports. For example, a user can customize a report to show metrics associated with both service-level agreements and key performance indicators on CPU loads. This map shows the connections Zabbix forms among machines, servers and a cloud service. Zabbix works via three discovery mode options: Network discovery. Periodically scans an IT environment and records a device's type, IP address, status, uptimes and downtimes. Low-level discovery. Automatically creates items, triggers and graphs based on the discovered device. Low-level discovery can create metrics from Simple Network Management Protocol object identifiers, Windows services, Open Database Connectivity Structured Query Language queries and network interfaces. Active agent autoregistration. Automatically starts monitoring any discovered device using a Zabbix agent. With Zabbix distributed monitoring, remotely run scripts collect data from multiple devices in distributed locations and combine that data in one dashboard or report, such as server availability across the country. Zabbix's GUI offers data points that range from system health to error severity and location, as well as monitoring details. Zabbix can send email notifications based on predefined events in a user's IT environment. Another way for Zabbix users to stay up to date with their IT environment is through mobile applications from suppliers such as M7 Monitoring or of their own creation. Agentless monitoring options with Zabbix Zabbix offers several monitoring options beyond agents. A simple check

The browser and navigate to the following link in order to allow access for less secure apps as in the following screen.Manage Secure Gmail Apps5. After you have turned on the Less Secure Apps feature on your Gmail account, run the above mail command again and verify your Inbox after a few seconds to check if the locally generated email has been successfully delivered – you should normally see the email has incoming from Gmail.Mail Delivery ConfirmStep 3: Configure Zabbix Sendmail Script6. Further, based on the $(which mail) command creates the following Bash script to Zabbix alertscripts directory with the following content and gives it execute permissions:# vi /usr/local/share/zabbix/alertscripts/zabbix-sendmail [On RHEL/CentOS]$ sudo nano /usr/local/share/zabbix/alertscripts/zabbix-sendmail [On Debian/Ubuntu]Script content:#!/bin/bashecho "$3" | /usr/bin/mail -s "$2" $1Configure Sendmail ZabbixNext, set the execute permission on the script file.# chmod +x /usr/local/share/zabbix/alertscripts/zabbix-sendmail7. Next, as previously, test the script functionality by sending a local email to a Gmail account. The way to run the script with positional parameters is explained above:# /usr/local/share/zabbix/alertscripts/zabbix-sendmail [email protected] "Subject here" "Body of the message here"Send Mail to Gmail AccountAfterward, verify Gmail Inbox and check if the new local message has arrived.Verify Mail DeliveryStep 4: Configure Zabbix to Send Alerts to Gmail8. If the tests so far we’re successful, then you can move to the next step and set up Zabbix to send generated email alerts to Gmail. First, log in to the Zabbix web interface and navigate to the following menu: Administration -> Media types -> Create media type.Zabbix Administration9. On the next screen enter an arbitrary Name to uniquely identify the script in the Zabbix configurations (in this example Send-Email-Script is used), choose Script as Type from the list and enter the name of the Bash script created earlier (zabbix-sendmail used in this tutorial) to send email from the command line (don’t use the path for the script, only the script name). When you’re done, hit the Add button below to reflect changes.Create Zabbix Email Alerts10. Further, let’s configure an email address to which you will send Zabbix alerts. Go to Profile -> Media -> Add and a new pop-up