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Patrick

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Just wondering if we have anyone here who is a Zabbix guru or knows someone who is. I want to see if I can hire someone to setup Zabbix in the lab and do a few tutorials. I have the pre-configured Zabbix VM up and running but a bit of a learning curve.
 
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Running this in our production env.
Currently monitoring 1100 servers, 200 switches, 250 routers over 3 continents with this.. takes a little getting used too when building templates but simply awesome
 
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wildchild said:
Running this in our production env.
Currently monitoring 1100 servers, 200 switches, 250 routers over 3 continents with this.. takes a little getting used too when building templates but simply awesome
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Any guides you used? Trying to get a start.
 
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wildchild said:
Running this in our production env.
Currently monitoring 1100 servers, 200 switches, 250 routers over 3 continents with this.. takes a little getting used too when building templates but simply awesome
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I would also be interested to hear, why you chose to use Zabbix rather than Nagios, Icinga, etc
 
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RTM said:
I would also be interested to hear, why you chose to use Zabbix rather than Nagios, Icinga, etc
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Two reasons really. First, they have a pfSense plug-in which is nice. Second, I have been getting a lot of "Zabbix is the more modern Nagios" advice lately.
 
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No Zabbix experience but recently pulled up an article on it and thought 'damn time to give this a whirl finally'. Used Zenoss before, was ok but not stellar and had lackluster hypervisor support/extensions/plugins last I checked. May be quite a bit better now.
 
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Tried it awhile back and never cared to much for the Java heavy UI. Ended up using LibreNMS, much easier learning curve.
 
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That's right I had opennms (did opennms fork tp librenms?) up at one point as well, was pretty good.
 
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RTM said:
I would also be interested to hear, why you chose to use Zabbix rather than Nagios, Icinga, etc
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Used a book, but most of all self tought.

Reasons to use zabbix
1. Easily create own template based on snmp or agent
2. Can handle huge networks/systems also multi geographical locations using proxy's
3. Lots of "free" templates available through either zabbix website or 3rd parties
4. Very easy to poc due to premade vm
5. Great support by either zabbix, local companies, or forum
6. Based on open source and easily tunable ( unlike or previous monitoring solution scom)
7. Highly scalable

That about it :)
While all of the above may also go for other systems, we never looked futher because this ticked all our boxes at the first go, and the other team was still fiddling getting basic monitoring going with the other solutions
 
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Now I feel bad i'm only monitoring a dozen switches and maybe 30 servers using it, the prebuilt appliance is very easy to start with although i'm certainly curious about that book building my own templates seems a bit daunting. We used it to replace cacti since it can do alerting, I'm looking into finding a way to integrate it with our pbx(asterix) next.
 
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