ZABBIX 1.3.1 review

ZABBIX is software for monitoring of your applications, network and servers

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Alexei Vladishev

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ZABBIX is software for monitoring of your applications, network and servers.
ZABBIX project supports both polling and trapping techniques to collect data from monitored hosts.

A flexible notification mechanism allows easy and quickly configure different types of notifications for pre-defined events.

Here are some key features of "ZABBIX":
Open Source solution
Runs on AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Tru64/OSF
SQL database for storing configuration, collected data and trends
Web interface offers minimal learning, ubiquitous access
Instant drill down from real-time status of IT Services to historical trend and statistics
Data visualisation and mapping
High performance native ZABBIX agents for performance and integrity monitoring for virtually all platforms (UNIX, Win32)
Monitoring of "agentless" environments
Assuring and monitoring SLA for IT Services
Monitoring of SNMP (v1,v2,v3) devices

Requirements:
Apache. Version 1.3.12 or later required.
MySQL (or PostgreSQL). Version 3.22 or later required.
PostgreSQL (or MySQL). Version 7.0.2 or later required. ZABBIX may work on previous versions of Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL as well. If using PostgreSQL, version 7.0.2 or later is strongly recommended.
MySQL or PostgreSQL development files (headers and libraries). Note: Usually provided as part of mysql-dev or postgresql-dev packages.
PHP. Version 4.0 or later required. PHP must be compiled as Apache module. PHP 5.0 is supported as well.
PHP GD or GD2 module. The module is required for displaying graphs and maps. The module must support images in PNG format.
PHP 4.0 MySQL or PostgreSQL module
GNU Make. Required for building ZABBIX or its agents from sources. In case if pre-built binaries are used, GNU make is not necessary.
WEB browser on client side
Support for HTML and PNG images required. MS Explorer (5.xx and 6.xx) and Mozilla 1.x work perfectly. Cookies and JavaScript must be enabled. Other browsers may work with ZABBIX as well.
NET-SNMP (or UCD-SNMP) library and header files. Required for support of SNMP agents. Optional.
Open SSL library and header files. Required for SNMP support. Optional.

What's New in 1.1.4 Stable Release:
This release introduces support for ListenIP for the ZABBIX server, and contains several important bugfixes.