Zabbix, released in 2004, is a robust web-based network monitoring tool capable of monitoring many hundreds of hosts and running thousands of checks per host at any set time. Zabbix is completely open source and does not have enterprise or paid versions. Zabbix takes just a few minutes to install, even by a beginner, and it can be fully configured through a web-based interface. The following screenshot shows the Zabbix 3.0 dashboard after logging in through the web GUI:
Zabbix has a very active community and many downloadable templates used to monitor a variety of devices or equipment. It is also comparatively easy to create our own custom Zabbix template for nonstandard devices. More details on Zabbix can be found on the official Zabbix site at: http://www.zabbix.com/.
It can easily be argued to give preference to Zabbix over main stream monitoring systems, such as Nagios, or Icinga, or any other solution currently available. The reason is simplicity without...