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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Zabbix dashboard

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

7. Monitoring on zabbix

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

9. 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)

10. A monitored host

11. 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

12. 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.

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

14. Zabbix Alerts (Email Alert)

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

16. Zabbix Graphs

17. Plug-in Zabbix on Grafana

18. Plug-in Zabbix to Grafana (Cont)

19. Our monitoring environment

20. Thank You!!!!!!
Questions????????