Zabbix for Monitoring and More
After a year of using Sensu to monitor our infrastructure, Ive reverted back to using the old faithful Zabbix, sensu worked but wasnt as simple and problem free as zabbix was. We are doing a few things different this time. We are not running Zabbix on a pc or dedicated hardware, but rather running it on a virtual server running within our Vcentre cluster and backed up by Veeam 9 . We therefor do not need to worry about hardware failures or performance issues, we can easily increase memory or cpu if required. We are also using zabbix proxies to monitor the remote branches, this works significantly better than it did the last time and updates etc are filtered back even if the link between the branch offices is interupted. Below is a simple howto to get a distributed zabbix monitoring system up and running. Feel free to add comments or suggestions on how to improve this howto. Master Node Install ubuntu 16.04lts Make sure you update you...