1. Overview of the System
Alexei Vladishev
CEO and Founder
Zabbix, SIA

2. Presenter Alexei Vladishev CEO, Founder, and Product Manager Name:
Position:

3. Content About Product 4 Elements 12 Main Functions 21 Architecture 33
Installation and Deployment Options 40
Strategy & Services 47

4. About Product Introduction 5 History 6 License 8
Competitive Benefits 9
Performance 10
Zabbix in Numbers 11

5. Zabbix solves all these issues So what’s the problem? Introduction
Cost of downtime is high
Hard to manage nontransparent environment
Impossible to make wise planning and purchasing
Zabbix solves
all these issues

6. GPL release History Stable Version Zabbix SIA Company est. 1st First
2006
v. 1.1
2005
Zabbix SIA Company est.
XML Protocol
Active Checks
Logfile Monitoring
Eventlog Monitoring
GSM Modem
SNMPv3
2004
1st
Stable Version
release
2001
First
GPL release
1998
Product idea
v. 1.0
v. 0.1

7. History continued So What Is NEXT? Zabbix Japan LLC v. 2.2 2012 2009
LLD
Multinamed Host
Java Gateway
JMX Monitoring
Automatic Inventory
SNMP Trap Monitoring
2008
v. 1.8
API
Configuration Cache
Passive Zabbix Proxy
IBM DB2 Support
Calculated Items
Better scalability
Enhanced dashboard
Better navigation
Better reporting
2007
Escallations
Zabbix Proxy
LDAP Auth
Dashboard
Maintenance
New Interface
SQLite
Network Discovery
Web Monitoring
UTF8, IPv6
v. 1.6
Zabbix Japan LLC
v. 1.4

8. GPLv2 Open Source True License
No Hidden (Corporate, Enterprise) versions

9. Competitive Benefits Bundled package True Open Source
Enterprise-friendly support pricing
Monitor anything
Distributed monitoring
Commercially Backed

10. Single Zabbix Node Performance
With a well structured set-up and powerful hardware, allows to process over new values per second, which is equal to monitoring of devices against 15 parameters with 50 second interval

11. 800 000 Best of Breed 25 Zabbix in Numbers
times software was downloaded during 2012
Best of Breed
Zabbix is nominated for the 2nd time among world’s best monitoring solutions according to Gartner 25
languages Zabbix interface is translated to

12. Elements
Host 13
Item 14
Trigger 15
Template 20

13. Host
Server or a network device having IP or DNS name
Any application
Any smart equipment

14. Sources of Information
Item
Sources of Information
Zabbix Agent
Server polls
Zabbix Agent (Active)
Processed by Zabbix agent
Simple check
Executed by Zabbix server
SNMP agent
All SNMP versions are supported
Trapper
Used with Zabbix sender
Log files
Internal
Zabbix health
Aggregate
Average/min/max for host group
External check
script[parameters]
SSH
Password and key authentication supported
Telnet
Calculated
From existing data

15. Trigger
Logical expression that can describe threshold or complex problem condition
6 severity levels may be assigned to a Trigger
visual representation - different colors for different severities
audio in global alarms - different audio for different severities
user media - different media (notification channel) for different severities
limiting actions by conditions against trigger severities

16. Trigger Expressions Syntax {host:key.function(param)}=0
{zabbix:system.cpu.load.avg(600)}>5
Operators
-, +, /, *, <, >, =, #, |, and
Functions
min, max, avg, last, diff, count, delta, time, etc
Not limited to single item or host
{host1:item1}=1 and {host2:item2}>3 | {host3:item3}<0
Expression Constructor makes it easier to build complex expressions

17. Real problem: Disk is full Trigger Dependencies CRM does’t respond
Alarm
CRM does’t respond
MySQL doesn’t respond
Alarm
Linux on Host 1 stopped
Alarm
Investigates the real cause of multiple problems
Skips dependent notifications
Hides dependent triggers in the frontend
Disk free space Host 1 = 0 Mb
Alarm

18. Trigger Hysteresis Task:
Average server room temperature is 12-14ºC. Alarm if temperature exceeds 20ºC and release alarm only if temperature goes below 15ºC.
({TRIGGER.VALUE}=0 and {server:temp.last(0)}>20) | ({TRIGGER.VALUE}=1 and {server:temp.last(0)}>15)

19. Relative Trigger
Allows to compare current result with some result in the past
Task:
Compare average load on system CPU for 1 hour today with average load for the same period yesterday and notify if it is more than 2 times larger
Example
{server:system.cpu.load.avg(1h)} / {server:system.cpu.load.avg(1h, 1d)}>2

20. Template
A template is a set of elements that can be conveniently applied to manage monitoring of multiple hosts. Nested templates allow to manage different hosts efficiently.
Template_MySQL
Template_Bacula
Template_Apache
Template_Linux
Template_JBoss
Template_Postfix
Template_MailServer
Template_WebServer
Template_AppServer
Mail Server #1
Mail Server #2
Web Server
Application Server

21. Main Functions
Collect 22
Store 25
Manage 26
Alert 27
Visualize 28

22. Any application that Customer depends on.
Collect data
Data is gathered using various methods, including Zabbix native agents and agent-less options: SNMP ver.1, 2, 3, IPMI, trappers, SSH, Telnet.
Any application that Customer depends on.
Applications
Middleware OS
Network
Hardware

23. Automated Device Management
Way to manage 200,000 devices and more
Network discovery
Condition
Action
Periodically search within IP+Port range for a certain reply
Create/delete Host and assign Template
New device arrives !
Auto-registration
Condition
Action
Install Zabbix agent on a new device, provide Zabbix server location
Create/delete Host and assign Template
New file system added!
Low-level discovery
For existing Hosts
Action
Periodically search on all Hosts for a new / missing components
Create/delete Items for existing host

24. Collect data | Web Monitoring
Response code, time, and speed (200; 5ms; 256kB/s)
Web scenarios, including login/logout, are supported
HTTP and HTTPS are supported
Check for pre-defined string [word/number] is supported

25. Store data Relation database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, SQLite)
Unlimited amount of historical data
Support of NoSQL storages (like Cassandra) is coming
Reuse stored data at any time

26. Manage data History Built-in data reduction Averaged historical data
Housekeeping
Long term storage
Per-item retention periods

27. Flexible escalation Alert Notification methods: E-mail, SMS, & Jabber
Chat message
Command Execution
Event Acknowledgement function
Flexible escalation

28. Visualize | Dashboard

29. Visualize | Graphs
Simple graphs are created automatically, no need to set up
Complex graphs may visualize data from different sources

30. Visualize | Maps Different available elements
Easy editing, Drag and Drop
Reference data along elements
Nested maps – ability to drill-down
UTF-8 support

31. Visualize | Maps

32. Visualize | Screens Compound pages Better context
Large display for helpdesk

33. Architecture Zabbix Server 34 Zabbix Proxy 35 Zabbix Agent 37
Trouble Free Maintenance 39

34. Back-End Database Front-end Zabbix Server API Ticket C language
Zabbix Agents
Zabbix Agents
Simple Check
Back-End
Database
Front-end
C language
PHP language
API
JSON-RPC
Ticket
Mobile Applications
Zabbix Proxy
Ticketing Systems

35. Zabbix Proxy Proxy is an aggregator of data collected by Agents
Zero maintenance
Automatically creates SQLite DB. Other DBs can be used as well
Hundreds of devices can work through a single Proxy
Zabbix Proxy
Zabbix Server

36. Web Monitoring by Proxy
Headquarters – New York
Branch #1 - London
Zabbix Server
Zabbix Proxy
Branch #2 - Paris
Web Server
Zabbix Proxy

37. Zabbix Agent Native agents. Written in C.
Small footprint, low system resource usage
Available for most platforms

38. Server Agent Zabbix Agent | Modes Passive mode Active mode
Request: CPU load
Response: 1.95
Passive mode
Active mode
Request: What to check?
Response: CPU load, ...
Request frequency set by Agent, 120 sec. by default
CPU load: 4.32
Fan speed (RPM): 3524
Free diskspace: 13 Gb
Buffer
Higher Performance
More secure

39. Trouble Free Maintenance
Everything, Data and Configuration, is stored in DB. To back-up Zabbix, just back-up corresponding Zabbix DB
No DB changes within major versions (Front-end from works great with Back-end 2.0.0)
Agents are backward compatible with Zabbix Server (Agent v.1.2 works fine with Zabbix Server 2.0.6)
Starting from Zabbix v.2.2, DB will be upgraded automatically when connected from Zabbix Server v.2.2

40. Installation and Deployment Options
Single server installation 41
Distributed installation 42
Single Node demployment 43
Distributed with Proxy demployment 44
Distributed with Nodes 45

41. Single Server
Single Server
Zabbix Back-end
Zabbix Front-End
Database

42. Distributed across Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 Zabbix Back-end
Zabbix Front-End
Database

43. Single Node Headquarters Branch #2 Zabbix Server
Rule for each device has to be created on firewall

44. Distributed by Proxy Headquarters Branch #2 Branch #1 Zabbix Server
Active Zabbix Proxy
Passive Zabbix Proxy

45. Distributed by Nodes Headquarters Branch #2 Branch #1 Sub-branch
MasterServer
Branch #2
Branch #1
Sub-branch
Slave Server
Slave Server
Zabbix Proxy

46. Download www.zabbix.com/download.php Use virtual appliance to test
3 options
Use virtual appliance to test
Install from a package (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu)
Install from a source

47. Strategy & Services
Strategy 48
Services 49
Partners 50

48. Strategy Stay Open Source
Concentrate on enterprise-level companies, while continue to be the best solution for small and medium companies
Deliver improvements regularly
Listen to customers’ needs, while defining strategy ourselves.

49. Our Services
Consulting
Build around customers to fit their unique business needs, requirements and complexities
Professional training
Template
Building
Talk to expert
Add unique device
Obtain knowledge
Outsource set-up
Get new version
Upgrade
Turn-Key Solution
Technical Advise
Optimize
Technical Support
Development
Get assistance
Remote Troubleshooting

50. Partner Network 16 57
partners are actively involved in Zabbix promotion all over the world

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