Monitor any possible performance metrics and incidents in your network:
Network performance
- Network bandwidth usage
- Packet loss rate
- Interface errorrate
- High CPU or memory utilization
- Number of tcp connections is anomaly high for this day of the week
- Aggregate throughput of core routers is low
Network health
- Link is down
- System status is in warning/critical state
- Device temperature is too high / too low
- Power supply is in critical state
- Free disk space is low
- Fan is in critical state
- No SNMP data collection
Configuration changes
- New device added or removed
- Network module is added, removed or replaced
- Firmware has been upgraded
- Device serial number has changed
- Interface has changed to lower speed or half-duplex mode
Key features and benefits
Various metric collection methods and protocols
- SNMP, IPMI
- Active / Passive modes
- IPv6 support
Flexible and extendable data gathering
- Calculated and aggregated metrics. For example: sum of traffic between two ports on a network switch.
- Preprocess collected data. For example: use regexp to extract some specific metric from legacy device.
Autodiscovery
- Autodetect network devices. For example: new switch added, replaced or removed.
- Autodetect device configuration changes. For example: new network modules added, or replaced; firmware upgraded.
Templating
- Start to monitor all metrics instantly by using out-of-the-box templates
- Clone and mass-update thousands of similar network devices using device configuration templates
Flexible problem definition
- Create complex logical expressions regarding monitored statistics of network devices
- Avoid false positives by defining hysteresis
Problem dependencies
- Define multi-level dependencies between related network nodes. Detect root cause failures.
Problem severity levels
- Define trigger severity levels to help concentrate on most important problems in case of multiple network issues.
Flexible notifications
- Multiple delivery methods: email, sms, jabber, custom scripts or messenger
- Customize message content based on recipient and escalation history
Remediation
- Run remote scripts on monitored device. You can restart remote switch, or reset/reconfigure network interface.
- Run remote commands even behind firewalls
Event correlation
- Decrease notification noise with event correlation
Customized escalation scenarios
- Build flexible escalation scenarios
- Escalate to user groups
Integration with 3rd party software
- Helpdesks, ticketing systems (2-way integration)
- Configuration management systems
- Messengers, mobile applications
- Inventory systems
Task automation
- Use API to automate configuration management
- Build remediation scripts
- Retrieve monitoring data
- Generate custom reports
Unlimited scalability
- Scale by offloading Zabbix server using Zabbix proxy
- Zabbix has no limits or hidden restrictions. Whatever the network size is.
Optimized for high performance
- Code efficiency, loadable modules…
- Data caching…
High Availability
- Use Zabbix proxy to collect monitoring data in case of network issues
- Build redundant monitoring solution using Zabbix components. See example.
Security and authentication
- Encrypt all monitoring traffic between Zabbix and your network devices
- Use LDAP authentication and flexible user permissions