This site is all about network monitoring tools, and it would be strange if I didn’t talk about Simple Network Management Protocol. After all, SNMP was the backbone of monitoring for a long, long time. Even today, it is still very much in use for monitoring, but the question is for how long? Let’s find …
How SNMP works? Learn about MIB, OID, Trap, Polling, Agent … Read More »
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) simplifies device management by enabling centralized discovery, monitoring, and configuration of devices on the network (routers, switches, printers and others) – find out more in my definitive step by step SNMP tutorial. It is difficult to find a complete alternative to SNMP because it has been implemented into millions of …
Top SNMP Alternatives because SNMP is dying (updated 2021) Read More »
The history of open source software is quite fascinating, a tale of great geeks who fight for freedom! Not like William Wallace but close. Let’s find out together how did it all begin and what future holds for open-source software! Even old-folks – who use a computer only for playing solitaire game – know for …
In this tutorial, we will learn how to avoid script, SNMP, or Zabbix agent timeout errors by increasing the Zabbix timeout value on the server, agent, or proxy. Before we start editing important files, let me explain why would someone even want to increase the Zabbix timeout value in the configuration files? A key function …
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The snmpwalk command is one of the most used tools on Linux for testing SNMP on the network devices. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use that command using various snmpwalk examples (v3 and v2c), and also examples of other commands from the Net-SNMP toolkit: snmpget, snmpset, and snmptrap. Are you familiar …
Snmpwalk Example (v3 & v2) + snmpget, snmpset, snmptrap Read More »
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Zabbix agent for Windows server using an MSI Installer package and how to monitor Windows server with Zabbix monitoring system. Using this guide you can monitor almost the entire Windows OS family: Windows server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 10, Windows …
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In this tutorial, we will learn step-by-step how to install, optimize and configure Zabbix Proxy 5.0 LTS or 5.4 Standard release on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. Zabbix proxy is a service that can collect performance and availability data from the end devices on behalf of the Zabbix server. You can use proxy to monitor remote locations behind the firewall …
Install Zabbix-Proxy on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 in 10 minutes! Read More »
In this tutorial, we will learn step-by-step how to install, optimize and configure Zabbix Proxy 5.0 LTS or 5.4 Standard release on Raspberry Pi (Rasbian). Zabbix proxy is a service that can collect performance and availability data from the end devices on behalf of the Zabbix server. You can use Zabbix proxy to monitor remote locations behind the firewall or …
Install Zabbix-Proxy on Raspberry Pi (RPi) in 10 minutes! Read More »
Zabbix server is installable on any Linux distribution, but in this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest Zabbix 5.0 LTS or 5.4 Standard release on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 / Oracle Linux 8. Zabbix is 100% free open-source ultimate enterprise-level software designed for monitoring availability and performance of IT infrastructure components and services. You can …
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Zabbix agent (Linux) on Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Rasbian (Raspberry Pi) and how to monitor Linux server with Zabbix monitoring system. You can use this guide to install Zabbix Agent 4.0 or 5.0 LTS version on almost any popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal), …
Zabbix Agent (Linux): Install on Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Debian, etc. Read More »
