Zabbix is a network management system created by Alexei Vladishev. It is designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware.

Links:

• Zabbix homepage

Use the virtual machine appliance rather than setting up a physical machine. Yuck!

Set up the LDAP authentication pane like this, making sure to specify a user's dn to bind as.

One that works, all you need to do is create user accounts in Zabbix which correspond to the user's Active Directory username and the password will be verified against LDAP. You can add that user to Zabbix groups as well.

A "client" is a server which will be monitored by Zabbix. The easiest way to do this is to install the zabbix-agent package on each server you want to monitor.

Installing the a

$ sudo apt-get install zabbix-agent

Edit the agent's config file, paying specific attention to the "Server" line:

$ sudo vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

$ sudo /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start