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Monitor Your Network with Zabbix
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Use Zabbix to keep tabs on all your machines across the network.
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Zabbix is a network monitoring application that lets you stay on top of all your network activities. The app is very scalable and can work on networks of any size, from a home network with a couple of computers to an enterprise with dozens. It’s cross-platform and will keep track of machines running Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X. You can use it to keep a close eye on every aspect of these machines. You can ask Zabbix to report on several aspects including free disk space, CPU load, network traffic statistics, memory consumption, application status, and much more.
Zabbix keeps all the collected information in databases, such as MySQL, although you can also plug it into PostgreSQL and SQLite databases as well. Zabbix is very adept at sending out alerts and creating graphs. It can send out alerts via the Jabber/XMPP instant messaging protocol or email. Unlike other monitoring apps, Zabbix also lets you set up actions on remote machines that are triggered automatically on predefined events. Zabbix also excels at visualizing your network. It can generate real-time graphing of monitored events and offers graphs, network maps, screens, and even slideshows, making it suitable for complex networks, whose sys admins prefer to see graphical data representations.
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