Application or server monitoring By: Rachidi M.L (IT Technician) University : vaal university of technology

Monitoring The ability to check on something over a period of time Our VUT IT-Services before Clients had to call to alert about services that are down. Manually open browsers to check status of applications.

Why we wanted monitoring at VUT Minimize downtime. Automation. Be proactive.

Zabbix at VUT Zabbix is an open source tool Gather limitless types of data from network Provides real-time monitoring Web-based Easy setup

Zabbix dashboard

What you can monitor CPU utilization Storage Availability Communication interface responsiveness Server security Server services

Monitoring on zabbix

Creating a Host You give a host a name Choose an interface Zabbix-Agent SNMP Provide IP address or DNS name of a server

Add a Template OS Linux template MySQL template ICMP template more templates available. A template come with different items inside Item - collects information for you on the server Type of items Vm.memory.size You can also add you own items (back-up monitoring)

A monitored host

Triggers A trigger is a warning - Evaluate data about items. - You can customize trigger thresholds. Example of triggers Password change on a server. A service is down Processor load Disk space

Triggers You can set severities for triggers - Not classified - Information - Warning - Average - High - Disaster You can set different colors for each severity. They can have audio alarms.

Zabbix Alerts Items collect data Set trigger thresholds Notifications Alerts are sent through media-types - Emails - SMS Alternatively run scripts Items collect data Set trigger thresholds Get a Zabbix Alert

Zabbix Alerts (Email Alert)

Zabbix Alerts (Notification Panel) Alternatively to check on items where the state changed

Zabbix Graphs

Plug-in Zabbix on Grafana

Plug-in Zabbix to Grafana (Cont)

Our monitoring environment

Thank You!!!!!! Questions????????