Jun 23, 2023 Posted by newlife007

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

Jun 20, 2023 Posted by newlife007

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

Oct 26, 2021 Posted by newlife007

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

May 20, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Installing Nagios Part 2 – The Agents

In following with a previous post on installing Nagios we are ready to move to installing the agents. In particular Linux, Solaris 10 and Windows agents to allow Nagios to do what it does best and monitor. Linux For my installation I am using CentOS 6.2 for which the EPEL repository has all the packages I need for NRPE and Nagios Plugins. # yum search nagios nagios.x86_64 : Nagios monitors hosts and... read more

Apr 14, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Multiple Nagios Instances on a Single Server

In this post I will cover how to run Multiple Nagios Instances on a Single Server. This will take a single installation of Nagios and allow you to run separate instances as you would to separate out different environments, such as production, development, certification, etc…. It allows for flexibility of configurations and allows Nagios to run faster for checks and execution. This installation... read more