Zabbix flexibility to monitor server resources, and combines the advantages of both cacti and nagios-in-one and powerful, enterprise-class distributed monitoring, in a wider market applications. cacti good monitoring network traffic, having a drawing function; Nagios good performance monitoring server, and alarm function; ZABBIX is a suite of enterprise-class open source web interface monitoring, the chassis (server side formed by the C language - Monitoring and agent terminal end - the end to be monitored), and provide a distributed network monitoring system monitoring, performance monitoring includes host network equipment performance monitoring, performance monitoring database, a variety of alarm mode, detailed reports, charting functions. Monitoring object can be linux or windows server, or router switches and other network equipment, via SNMP (simple, network, protocol Simple Network Management Protocol), zabbinx agent, ping, port monitoring methods such as remote network servers, monitoring, data collection and other functions, and provides a notification mechanism enables system administrators to quickly locate and solve various problems in the system, the latest version is zabbix4.0, the official website is http://www.zabbix.com
Zabbix operating conditions:
server：
Zabbix server needs to run in LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP) environment, low hardware requirements
Agent:
At present, the basic support agent common market OS, include Linux, HP (Unix), Oracle (Solaris), wiindows etc.
SNMP:
It supports a variety of common network devices
Zabbix features:
Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source monitoring package web interface chassis (server end - end monitoring client and agent - monitored end) made by the C language, providing a distributed system monitoring and network monitoring capabilities, with performance monitoring host, network equipment performance monitoring, database performance monitoring, a variety of alarm mode, detailed reporting, charting and other functions.
Advantage:
Open source, free software input costs; low server equipment performance requirements; support for multiple devices; support distributed centrally managed; open test interfaces, expansion and strong;
Cons: no factory support, problem solving too much trouble; agent to be installed on the monitored machine, all data exists in the database, the big data generated, the main bottleneck in the database.
Zabbix features;
Data receipt; flexibility thresholds defined; alarm highly configurable; real-time graphics; Web monitoring capability; a wide range of visualization options; historical data storage; easy to configure; using templates; network discovery; fast Web interfaces; Zabbix API; permissions system ; full-featured and easy extension agent (agent); binary daemon