Configuring the Client
https://monitor-rice-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/zabbix/ for Non VPN access from off campus to Zabbix
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, an SNMP agent or a program on the client or target system.
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