I was asked by Packt Publishing to give the book Mastering Zabbix a review. It's by Andrea Dalle Vacche and Stefano Kewan Lee, copyright 2013.

I found it most interesting to see what topics they covered as the book title states, "Mastering Zabbix" vs. not covered. Many things I've done …

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This is an updated script to install Zabbix 2.2.x on CentOS/Red Hat 6. I have tested it on CentOS 6.5. The script was made for Zabbix 2.2.1, but if you modify the ZBX_VER variable in the script, it should work …

Update: This has been updated for 2.2.x. Follow this link.

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This is an updated script to install Zabbix 2.0.x on CentOS/Red Hat 6. I have tested it on CentOS 6.2. The script was made for Zabbix 2.0.1, but …

There have been many times I have needed to run NTOP on a Debian host and got it working, but never set it up 100% correctly. Usually I'd get NTOP working and configured and by that time I was too anxious to wrap it up. I'd modify /etc/rc.local …

This is about my experience with OS X from my perspective -- don't forget, everyone's different. This all took place over a little more than a year.

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Mac

About a year ago I purchased a MacBook Air and was excited to get it up and running and …

Not so fast folks!

As always, we're trying different things. I recently used some older parts and created a Server with 2.6.39 (Debian) that has a 3ware card and a Btrfs filesystem. LVM was placed on top of the 3ware partition and then Btrfs was put on top …

Update: This has been updated for 2.2.x. Follow this link.

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This is an updated script to install Zabbix 1.8.x on CentOS/Red Hat 5. I have tested it on CentOS 5.4. The script was made for Zabbix 1.8.0, but …

Update: This has been updated for 1.8.x. Follow this link.

I was following the Zabbix forums and people are constantly having problems installing Zabbix.

To make things easier, I wrote a magic install script for CentOS/Red Hat 5. I have tested it on CentOS 5.2.

Basically …

As of this writing, Etch is the current "stable" version of Debian.

This is how to install Zabbix!

1. Add an unstable deb-src repository to your sources.list. If you have problems later, make sure the following deb-src line is the only deb-src line in your sources.list file.

   echo "deb-src …