Getting started with Zabbix

My studies in this wonderful monitoring platform, Zabbix, began in 2005, with the first version of the software. Actually, my experience in monitoring systems dates back to 1994. Since then, I've encountered several tools, commercial and open source, for monitoring IT environments. I admit that open source tools have always been my favorite because of the flexibility that they offer and also because of the developers' ideology. These two points have always guided me in finding and using IT solutions.

When I came across Zabbix in 2005, the platform had not grown enough to be used in our production environments. It started growing from then on, and apparently had good potential. In 2007, with Zabbix version 1.4, we understood ...

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