Once I upgraded Zabbix to version 6.4 and noticed that the “Template ICMP Ping” template stopped working on new devices, it continued to work on old ones, but if you add a new device, a warning was displayed:
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Zabbix. Upgrading the database to primary keys
Starting with Zabbix 6.0, primary keys are used for all tables in new installations, but since I upgraded Zabbix server to version 6.4, I had to manually update the tables after the upgrade.
Before updating, first of all, open the menu “Report” – “System Information” and make sure that the keys are not used, this will be indicated by the entry – “Database history tables use primary key – No”, if the keys are used, then this entry simply will not be.
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I started using Zabbix server a very long time ago, gradually updated it to the newest versions, and after a while I noticed that the server was updated, and the standard templates remained old.
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I once added user options to the Zabbix agent configuration and they needed to access files that could only have root permissions, so I had to run Zabbix-agent as root.
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I was once asked to change the Zabbix icon.
Continue reading “How to change favicon in Zabbix”Solution Free disk space is less than 5% on volume /boot
One day Zabbix told me that there is not enough free space on the /boot partition on one server
Continue reading “Solution Free disk space is less than 5% on volume /boot”Custom intervals in Zabbix
In this article, I will give an example of specifying custom intervals for items in Zabbix so that they are polled only at the specified time, and not constantly at the usual interval.
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In this article, I will give an example of creating triggers in Zabbix that can only fire at certain times, and not always.
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Once I found a warning in the Zabbix panel:
Zabbix housekeeper processes more than 75% busy
Solution: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
Once on Ubuntu Server 18.04 I upgraded Zabbix 4.4 to 5.0 and found an error in the logs during the upgrade:
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