


Zabbix lets you avoid connecting to each host in order to see its health. Performance monitors includes everything from host memory, processor, and swap space usage to free disk on all mounted partitions, running processes, disk read/write operations, and more. It allows you to see any host’s “health” on your network from a single point of entry. Zabbix provides distributed monitoring in real time with centralized Web administration. Network traffic for communicating with server is minimal - a matter of bytes, not kilobytes. The Zabbix agent starts six processes by default and uses around 3MB of RAM and 0.1% of processor power.
WEB MONITOR LINUX INSTALL
You can compile and install the agent yourself, you can install it from a distribution repository, or you can download precompiled binaries for your distribution. Installing Zabbix agent on a host is easy and takes only a few minutes. Running Zabbix server starts by default 15 processes, using a total of 34MB of RAM and around 1.5% of processor power. If you plan to run the Zabbix server on a Linux Debian server, I recommend reading this manual. Installation is relatively easy as long as you have all the requirements met and you follow the step-by-step documentation. To successfully install the Zabbix server you need to run Apache (with PHP extensions) and a supported database server. You can download source code from the Zabbix site, or install the software from a binary package if you’re using Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, or FreeBSD.
WEB MONITOR LINUX MAC OS
Zabbix server can run on all Unix/Linux distributions, and Zabbix agents are available for Linux, Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD), Netware, Windows, and network devices running SNMP v1, v2, and v3. All Zabbix data, including configuration and performance data, is stored in a relational database - MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle - on the server. Note that you can have more than one Zabbix server installed, but you cannot consolidate data from multiple servers in one single central server. Zabbix is a server-agent type of monitoring software, meaning you have a Zabbix server where all gathered data is collected, and a Zabbix agent running on each host.

It’s easier to use and provides more functionality than Nagios or BigBrother. Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution for servers, network services, and network devices. I have used BigBrother and Nagios for a long time to troubleshoot network problems, and I was happy with them - until Zabbix came along.
