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How To Exclude Services From Windows Discovery in Zabbix 5.x

How To Exclude Services From Windows Discovery in Zabbix 5.x When adding hosts with Windows and using the default Template Module Windows services by Zabbix agent template, we get a lot of notifications from services that we do not need. Below I will show you how to modify the Macro that will bypass the detection of these services and our Zabbix will not inform us unnecessarily about problems with these... read more

How To Clone Existing Templates in Zabbix 5.x

How To Clone Existing Templates in Zabbix 5.x This post explains how to clone and existing template to create a new template in Zabbix. The reason for the document is to show how to use the official OS templates to create a separate set of monitors for non-prod systems. Any linked templates will have to be full cloned as well if you want to customize them individually. Step By Step Find the template you... read more

Installing Zabbix 5.4 on Ubuntu Server 20.04

Installing Zabbix 5.4 on Ubuntu Server 20.04 Introduction Zabbix is an Open Source monitoring solution similar to Nagios. In this post we will cover basic installation on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. The steps listed here assume you have an Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS installed and running. Installation of Zabbix First step is to add the Zabbix repository to your server. $ wget... read more

Retrieving Disk Information and Freespace Using PowerShell 2

It is always nice to be able to retrieve disk information for the systems. Alot of scripts are used to gather the information so Administrators can keep ahead of the demand for space. With PowerShell 2 it is simple to retrieve the information in a single line using the win32_volume WMI class call. Now in this example I am only retrieving four items and rounding the values to two decimal places. There are... read more

Monitoring Your System with Munin on Fedora

Have a few servers and want to get some stats on IO, CPU, networking and other data don’t have full blown monitoring, this is where Munin can help out. Installation is simple Install Munin. $ sudo yum install munin munin-node Enable and start munin-node service $ sudo systemctl enable munin-node.service $ sudo systemctl start munin-node.service Set the password for the Munin id to access theĀ  site $... read more

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