Information about the package, zabbix, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The zabbix package is designed for, Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure.
Package Name:
zabbix
Summary:
Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure
Description:
ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data. This makes ZABBIX ideal for capacity planning. ZABBIX supports both polling and trapping. All ZABBIX reports and statistics, as well as configuration parameters are accessed through a web-based front end. A web-based front end ensures that the status of your network and the health of your servers can be assessed from any location. Properly configured, ZABBIX can play an important role in monitoring IT infrastructure. This is equally true for small organisations with a few servers and for large companies with a multitude of servers.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.8.22
Release:
1.el6
Size:
93 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the zabbix package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install zabbix
This command will install zabbix on the server.
yum remove zabbix
This command will un-install zabbix on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove zabbix, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove zabbix
This command will un-install zabbix on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove zabbix when using the -y flag.
yum update zabbix
This command will update zabbix to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove zabbix, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update zabbix
This command will update zabbix to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove zabbix when using the -y flag.
yum info zabbix
This command will show you core information about the zabbix package.
yum deplist zabbix
This command will show you the dependencies for zabbix. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update zabbix
This command will check if there is an update waiting on zabbix. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.