Linux server administration/Zabbix

Zabbix is an open source monitoring software for networks, operating systems and applications. It is designed following a Client-server architecture to monitor and track the status of various services components: network, servers, and network hardware.

You can installing it using official Zabbix installation instructions or running it using a docker container

Running Zabbix under docker

• docker pull zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql
• docker run --name some-zabbix-server-mysql -e DB_SERVER_HOST="some-mysql-server" -e MYSQL_USER="some-user" -e MYSQL_PASSWORD="some-password" -d zabbix/zabbix-server-mysql:tag

Activities

1. Install Zabbix using docker containers

See also

• Nagios and Icinga
• Prometheus monitoring and monit
• systemd, daemontools, runit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_supervision