Shockingly enough out of the box Zabbix (version 6) does not include any template to monitor a very crucial compontent every organization: DNS. Like most open source aficionado my DNS of choice is BIND named. Luckily Zabbix has a pretty huge community and plenty of templates for it are freely available, a quick search on the interwebz lead me to this page. Kudos to whoever wrote this template, I just took it and tweaked it a little bit. …

Zabbix should theoretically be able out of the box to send alerts via XMPP. For some reason this functionality does not work as intended, luckily it is possible to specify a custom script to send alerts; combining the aforementioned script with the Perl library sendxmpp is the easiest way to enable Zabbix from sending notifications via XMPP. $ yum install sendxmpp Create a bash script, this will be invoked by Zabbix to send notifications: …

Zabbix is an open source resource and network monitoring system, more info: zabbix.com. The official wiki is missing some important bits regarding the installation of the tool on CentOS 7 systems. First of all, let’s add Zabbix repository and then proceed to with the installation of Zabbix and some required dependecies: $ rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm $ yum install mariadb mariadb-server httpd zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql setroubleshoot Configure MariaDB Login to MariaDB shell, change root’s password, create a new database for Zabbix and add a new user: …