While troubleshooting a Zabbix communication problem I realized that there was no Zabbix protocol dissector in Wireshark. Long story short: I wrote my own dissector in Lua as an exercise. Actually, I wrote two dissectors, one for Zabbix passive agent communication (port 10050, the not-so-json-style protocol) and one for other Zabbix components (port 10051). You […]
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Zabbix Components and Ports
Zabbix monitoring system consists of components that communicate with each other. Here is a summary of the TCP ports and some configuration characteristics of various connections. Active agent: The Zabbix agent periodically asks the Zabbix proxy (or Zabbix server, if configured to use the server directly) for the list of items that should be collected, […]
Sending Twitter DMs in Zabbix Actions
When configuring actions in Zabbix for example for problem alerts, there is a built-in method for sending email notifications. Here are the instructions for sending alerts as Twitter direct messages. These instructions are based on a Debian 8 Jessie installation where Zabbix has been installed from the packages in the Zabbix repository. You maybe want […]