The Product

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Content About Product

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Elements

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Main Functions

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Architecture

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Installation and Deployment Options

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About ProductIntroduction

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History

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License

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Strategy

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Competitive Benefits

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Performance

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Popularity

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IntroductionSo what’s the

problem?

Cost of downtime is high Hard to manage

untransparent environment Impossible to make wise

planning & purchasing

Zabbix solves

all these issues

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History

Product

idea

1998

2001

2004

2005

2006

First

GPL release

v. 0.1

v. 1.0

Zabbix SIA Company

est.

1st

Stable Versionrelease

v. 1.1

XML Protocol

Active Checks

Logfile Monitoring

Eventlog Monitoring

GSM Modem

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History continued

2007

2008

2009

2012

v. 1.6

v. 1.8

v. 2.0

v. 1.4

LLD

Multinamed Host

Java Gateway

JMX Monitoring

Automatic Inventory

SNMP Trap Monitoring

API

Configuration Cache

Passive Zabbix Proxy

IBM DB2 Support

Calculated Items

Escallations

Zabbix Proxy

LDAP Auth

Dashboard

Maintenance

New Interface

SQLite

Network Discovery

Web Monitoring

UTF8, IPv6

So What Is NEXT?

Better scalable

Enhanced dashboard

Better navigation

Lua language integration

Better reporting

v. 2.2

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License

Open SourceNo hidden | Corporate |

Enteprise versions

GPLv2

True

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Strategy

Stay Open Source Concentrate on enterprise-

level companies, while continue to be the best solution for small and medium companies

Deliver improvements regularly

Listen to customers’ needs, while defining strategy ourselves.

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Competitive Benefits

Bundled package True Open Source Enterprise-friendly support

pricing Monitor anything Distributed monitoring Commercially Backed

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Performance

With a well structured set-up and powerful hardware, allows to process over 5000 new values per second, which is equal to monitoring of 50 000 devices against 10 parameters with 100 second interval

Single Zabbix Node

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Popularity

times software was downloaded during 11 months of 2012

737 464Best of Breed

Zabbix is nominated for the 2nd time among world’s best monitoring solutions according to Gartner

25 languages Zabbix interface is translated to

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Elements

Host

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Item

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Trigger

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Event

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Template

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Host

Server or a network device having IP or DNS name

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ItemSource of informationZabbix AgentServer pollsZabbix Agent (Active)Processed by Zabbix agentSimple checkExecuted by Zabbix serverSNMP agentAll SNMP versions are supportedTrapperUsed with Zabbix senderLog files

InternalZabbix healthAggregateAverage/min/max for host groupExternal checkscript[parameters]SSHPassword and key authentication supportedTelnetCalculatedFrom existing data© Zabbix

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Item | Flexibility

Units If set,

K/M/G/T/P/E/Z/Y prefix fill be added

2048 -> 2KBMultiplierData type

Decimal, octal, hex

Store value Store as is Delta Delta (speed per

second) Useful for

monitoring counters

Value Mapping

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Triger

Logical expression representing problem condition6 severity levels

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Triger Expressions

Syntax

{host:key.function(param)}=0

{zabbix:system.cpu.load.avg(600)}>5

Operators

-, +, /, *, <, >, =, #, |, &

Functions

min, max, avg, last, diff, count, delta, time, etc

Not limited to single item or host

{host1:item1}=1 & {host2:item2}>3 | {host3:item3}<0

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Triger Dependencies

Investigates the real cause of multiple problems

Skips dependent notifications

Hides dependent triggers in the frontend

CRM does’t respondMySQL doesn’t respond

Linux on Host1 stoppedDisk free space Host 1 = 0 Mb

Alarm

Alarm

Alarm

Alarm

Real problem:

Disk is full

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Triger Hysteresis

Task:Average server room temperature is 12-14ºC. Alarm if temperature exceeds 20

({TRIGGER.VALUE}=0 & {server:temp.last(0)}>20) | ({TRIGGER.VALUE}=1 & {server:temp.last(0)}>15)

({TRIGGER.VALUE}=0 & {server:temp.last(0)}>20) | ({TRIGGER.VALUE}=1 & {server:temp.last(0)}>15)

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Event

Different sources: Triggers Discovery Autoregistration

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Template

A template is a set of elements that can be conveniently applied to manage monitoring of multiple hosts.

Nested templates allow to manage different hosts efficiently.

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Main FunctionsCollect

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Store

25

Manage

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Alert

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Visualize

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Collect data

Data is gathered using various methods, including Zabbix native agents and agent-less options: SNMP ver.1, 2, 3, IPMI, trappers, SSH, Telnet.

Hardware

Any application that Customer depends on.

Network

OS

Middleware

Applications

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Store data

Relation database (MySQL, PostreSQL, Oracle, DB2, SQLite)

Unlimited amount of historical data

Support of NoSQL storages (like Cassandra) is coming

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Manage data

History

Averaged historical data

Housekeeping

Built-in data reduction

Long term storage

Per-item retention periods

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AlertNotification method:

E-mail

SMS

Jabber

Chat message

Command Execution

Flexible escallation

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Visualize | Dashboard

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Visualize | Graphs

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Visualize | Maps

Different available elements

Easy editing Reference data

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Visualize | Screens

Compound pages Better

context Large

display for helpdesk

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Architecture Zabbix Server

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Zabbix Proxy

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Zabbix Agent

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Front-end

Back-end

Zabbix Server

Database

Zabbix Proxy

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Zabbix Proxy

Zero maintenance Automatic creation of SQLite

database

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Zabbix Agent

Native agents Small footprint, low system

resource usage Available for most platforms

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Agent

Zabbix Agent | ModesServ

er Passive mode

Request: CPU load

Response: 1.95

Active mode

Request: What to check?

Response: CPU load, ...

CPU load: 4.32

Fan speed (RPM): 3524Free

diskspace: 13 Gb

Request frequency is given by Server

Request frequency given by Proxy

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Installation and Demployment OptionsSingle server installation

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Distributed installation

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Single Node demployment

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Distributed with Proxy demployment

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Distributed with Nodes demployment

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Single ServerSingle

ServerZabbix Back-end

Zabbix Front-End

Database

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Distributed acrossServer 1

Server 3

Zabbix Back-end

Server 2

Zabbix Front-End

Database

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Single Node

Headquarters

Branch #2

?

Zabbix Server

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Distributed by Proxy

Headquarters

Branch #2

Zabbix Server

Branch #1

Active Zabbix Proxy

Pasive Zabbix Proxy

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Distributed by Nodes

Headquarters

Branch #2

MasterServer

Slave Server

Slave Server

Branch #1

Sub-branch

Zabbix Proxy

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Thank you for

attention!

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