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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- Windows installations are the most simple to perform and are done using an MSI that is executed on the target system. \\rnas.rice.edu\ZabbixAgents
- Linux and Unix installation are only slightly more complex and can be accomplished by following the steps in https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITSAI/SAI+Systems+net+-+Installing+Zabbix+Agent or via YUM Installing the Zabbix Agent on Linux Hosts
- Firmware based networked devices such as printers and network gear can not run a proprietary agent and generally come with SNMP installed as part of the firmware. (RO community string = public, monitor.rice.edu = SNMP management station - please take not of the version of SNMP that your equipment support V1, V2C, or V3.
- After installing and starting the agent on an operating system, the Zabbix service can be configured to automatically detect the new server, add the host in to the database and associate it within the appropriate host group.
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The Zabbix Web service portal https://monitor.rice.edu/zabbix/
From Off Campus use the proxy link https://monitor-rice-edu.ezproxy.rice.edu/zabbix/
Web interface Layout and basic navigation:
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