Is there anyone here who is actually using Zabbix in production and
monitoring FreeBSD boxes with it? I know it looks like a shiny toy, but
I'm telling you that the reality is far less. The monitoring is limited
at best for linux, and almost completely unusable without major
customization for FreeBSD. I agree that having a nice centralized
monitoring system to use with pfSense would be nice, but our extensive
experience evaluating Zabbix led us to the conclusion that it's not
ready for prime time.
Tim Nelson wrote:
Part of the intrigue for me was a nice consolidated interface for
everything. With Nagios, you still really need Cacti to make it fully
functional. Plus, the zabbix-agent allows for an even wider scope of
monitoring versus plain old network/ping/snmp checks. I've tried the
Nagios/Cacti route and just didn't like it.
----- "Curtis LaMasters" wrote:
> Just curious, what does Zabbix do that Nagios does not?
>
Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
>
>
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Eisenberg
<nat...@atlasnetworks.us <mailto:nat...@atlasnetworks.us>> wrote:
>
Tim,
>
> Zabbix does support SNMP checks and TCP/IP via zabbix-server
originated pings and port checks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tnel...@rockbochs.com
<mailto:tnel...@rockbochs.com>]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:45 AM
> To: support@pfsense.com <mailto:support@pfsense.com>
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Zabbix Agent package on 1.2.1
>
> Thank you all for the responses!
>
> I thought that the Zabbix Agent package may be out of date but
it did list it as being 'up to par' with version 1.2.1 of pfSense
in the packages page. Apparently it is incorrect. Well, back to
the drawing board. <Checking to see if Zabbix supports plain
TCP/UDP port monitoring, content checking, and SNMP polling...>
>
> <OT>
> I've been using JFFNMS for quite some time as a monitoring
solution. It works well as long as you don't mind running PHP4 and
MySQL4 on an older box. The latest version has some serious issues
(Google "jffnms admin structure not found") which haven't been
fixed and the project is nearly dead. It's time to move on...
> </OT>
>
> Tim Nelson
> Systems/Network Support
> Rockbochs Inc.
> (218)727-4332 x105
>
> ----- "Nathan Eisenberg" <nat...@atlasnetworks.us
<mailto:nat...@atlasnetworks.us>> wrote:
>
> > Throwing my hat in the ring here - we have several zabbix servers
> > deployed in production. It is very good; it is easy to set it
up to
> > get emails on disk failures, raid rebuilds, individual fan
failures;
> > pretty much anything you might want to hear about.
> >
> > Plus having anything you else you can imagine on a graph is pretty
> > nice.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Mansfield [mailto:it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com
<mailto:it-admin-pfse...@taptu.com>]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:34 AM
> > To: support@pfsense.com <mailto:support@pfsense.com>
> > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Zabbix Agent package on 1.2.1
> >
> > Tim Nelson wrote:
> > > I've recently tried installing the Zabbix Agent package on a
fresh
> > 1.2.1 installation and it appears to have some 'issues'.
Namely, one
> > issue. It doesn't install at all. The output from the installation
> > session:
> >
> > we too would be interested in this, as we're trialling zabbix in
> > place
> > of cacti and nagios
> >
> >
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