Paragonians

Compact Monitoring System-ZABBIX

Monitoring a server is an essential process to keep it healthy. Managing logs and status of the services of your servers in a human readable and viewable form is now very easy and handy. ZABBIX is an open source compact and complete monitoring system. I can comfortably call it YOUR OWN DOCTOR because it provides

Complete examination of your server hardware in a following way

• Disk check
• Performance check
• Process management details
• Load of processes
• Memory management and swap usage
• Web based administration of server health
• Email Alerts system if systems services go down
• Integration of SMS and phone notification system with ZABBIX
• Check the integrity of a machine like kernel, configuration and scripts etc..
• Logs management and integration with databases mysql, oracle, sqllite, postgre
• Consistently checks the hardware, databases, services and helps system administrator to manage capacity planning.
• Graphical view of your server parameters, pie charts (2D and 3D) and zoom your graphs.
• ZABBIX proxy is an excellent way to manage centralized monitoring of distributed network infrastructure.
• Get an overview from a ZABBIX dashboard
• Network monitoring using traceroute, ping and include more scripts in it.

Its free as open source and supported by

Linux, unix, freebsd and BSD distribution, HP-Unix, solaris, Mac OS, SCO Unix. To set it up you should have apache, php, php-gd, php-bcmath modules, mysql server, php-mysql, ZABBIX has two major components

* Zabbix server

* Zabbix proxy server (optional)

Zabbix server manages remotely checks the network services as mail servers and web servers and checks the server to alert system administrator

Zabbix proxy server is a process which gather information locally on the server and then forward it zabbix server, from this way centralized monitoring is done.

For further details download its manual and set up your doctor ): To set it up get source from here