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h3. What's Zabbix?

* Distributed monitoring solution
* GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2
* Alerts, advanced monitoring, trend analysis, data visualization, actions, RC, JSON API
* Stores data away from production
** MySQL
** PostgreSQL
** SQLite
** Oracle / IBM DB2

h3. What can Zabbix do for you?

Collect service quality metrics
* Uptime
* Response time
* Failure rate

Notify you when there’s an issue
* Be the first to know about down time
* Identify problems before the users report
* Get alerted for potential security attack

Troubleshoot your environment
* Reduce/eliminate guess work during root cause analysis
* Minimize time to identify problem
* Measure improvement after introducing a fix

Plan sysadmin tasks
* Identify optimal maintenance window
* Hardware projection

Measure success
* Institution goals (ex. user adoption)
* Brags

Explore data
* Monitor anything\!

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h5. Requirements

* Zabbix Server version 2.0 and up
* Zabbix Java Bridge

h5. Templates

* Application
** Statistics
*** Sessions (active, inactive)
*** Users &Courses (available, unavailable)
*** Assessment attempts / hour
*** Database connection pool usage
** Security
*** Config changes in conf/ folder & system registry database table
*** Creation of privileged accounts, Logins from unexpected terminal
*** Command-line authentication tool usage
* Linux / Windows
** Processor load
** CPU utilization
** Memory usage
** Network usage
** Disk usage
** File descriptor usage (Only Linux)
* Java
** Heap space memory usage
** Eden space memory usage
** Tenured space memory usage
** Survivor space memory usage
** Non-heap space memory usage
** GC collection count
** GC collection time
** Threads usage
** OutOfMemoryError, StackOverflowError
* Tomcat
** Request processor
*** Average processing time
*** Requests per minute
*** Errors per minute
** Thread pool
*** Busy
*** Current
*** Max
* Cache
* ActiveMQ