Configuring the Client
Agent and agentless monitoring: Many products on the market today claim to use agentless monitoring. The only products that can truly make this claim are those products that sit out of band and monitor via network traffic. True agentless monitoring has a drawback in that you can only gather information that crosses the network which does not tell you anything about the health of a system that delivers the service. Zabbix is an agent based monitor that relies on the system itself or the monitoring server to detect problems, collect data and determine action based on this information. In this case, Zabbix can use its own proprietary agent or an SNMP agent on the client or target system.
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- The IP address or hostname of the system
- An association with some group of other servers or a new group association such as department, type of service or other association. New groups can be added on request.
- (not required but beneficial) A monitoring template that will be used to reduce the work of identifying items that will be monitored on the server or system
The Zabbix Web service portal https://monitor.rice.edu/zabbix/
Web interface Layout and basic navigation:
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