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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How to run Zabbix-agent as root
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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In this article, I will give an example of SNMP Traps display about Loop Detect in Zabbix.
Continue reading “Displaying SNMP Traps about Loop Detect in Zabbix”Transferring Zabbix to another server
It took one time to transfer Zabbix server version 4.4.10 running on Ubuntu Server 14.04 to a new server running Ubuntu Server 20.04 and at the same time I updated Zabbix to version 5.2
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