Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 We are going to configure this as a server, without SNMP support, and with MySQL as a database: [root@srv-1 data]# cd .. [root@srv-1 create]# cd .. [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# ./configure –enable-server –with-mysql checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c […]

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Start the server: [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# cd /usr/local/bin [root@srv-1 bin]# ./zabbix_server [root@srv-1 bin]# cat /tmp/zabbix_server.log 027362:20060418:104022 Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.1beta8. 027364:20060418:104022 server #1 started [Alerter] 027366:20060418:104022 server #2 started [Timer] 027368:20060418:104022 server #3 started [ICMP pinger] 027373:20060418:104022 server #4 […]

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Run make [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# make Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src’ Making all in libs make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/zabbix-1.1beta8/src/libs’ Making all in zbxcommon . . . gcc -g -O2 -o zabbix_sender zabbix_sender.o ../libs/zbxcommon/libzbxcommon.a -lresolv -lnsl make[3]: […]

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The agent files also end up in /usr/local/bin by default: [root@srv-1 zabbix-1.1beta8]# cd /usr/local/bin/ [root@srv-1 bin]# ls zab* zabbix_agent zabbix_agentd zabbix_get zabbix_sender zabbix_server [root@srv-1 bin]# ls -l zab* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179347 Apr 18 10:56 zabbix_agent -rwxr-xr-x […]

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 When first logging on to Zabbix, the login name is admin, and the password is blank: Change the admin password as soon as you can: Use configuration/hosts to add a host. Make sure you link with the correct […]

Here is a perl script that determines the number of HTTP connections on a server, and displays the rusults on one of the seven segment displays on the NetAdminWorld console: open (HC, “ssh -p <port> root\@example.com ‘netstat | grep http | wc -l ‘|”); while (<HC>){ $count=$_/6 } use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET […]

Monit is a small, easy to configure monitoring system for *nix systems that will attempt to restart services that have failed. Grab the tarball, extract, configure, make, and make install: [usr-1@srv-1 ~]$ tar -xzf mon*4.7*.gz [usr-1@srv-1 ~]$ cd mon*7 [usr-1@srv-1 monit-4.7]$ ./configure checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 On Windows Server 2003, Perfmon counters can be logged directly to a SQL database. Let’s do that. Create a database on your SQL Server. We called the database pmon: We’ll create a device for the database with […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Use Windows NT authentication: Do not dynamically determine the port. Uncheck and make sure port 1433 is used: Change the default database to pmon: The rest of the defaults are OK: Click finish, and the summary screen […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Click Test Data Source, and if all is happy, a window showing the results of the ODBC connectivity test will pop up: Another summary of the ODBC connection: Let’s use our perfmon database. In performance monitor, create […]

There are 4 parts to this article: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 After you close out the settings, the counter log should be started. If not, then start it: Add the counters from the database by clicking on the log icon from System Monitor and selecting the database via […]

Here is a Lua script we put together that measures the latency of a web host, the time to resolve the host, and the time to retrieve a page: — time to resolve host, time to ping host, time to get host/page print (“\”page name\”,\”host latency ms\”,\”dns resolve ms\”,\”page receive ms\””) — fromCSV from http://www.lua.org/pil/20.4.html […]