ZABBIX is an open source software created by Alexei Vladishev. Zabbix makes it possible to supervise the statute of various services network, servers and other network materials .

In front of the multiplication of the equipment (possibly virtual) and applicatifs, and with the need for ensuring itself of their good operation constantly, the tools for supervision became essential with any data processing department.

Zabbix is new come in the world from the supervision which is dissociated initially by its administration entirely carried out through the Web interface.

ZABBIX uses MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle to store the data. Its interface Web is written in PHP. It offers various options of monitoring. The simple checking makes it possible to check the availability as well as the response time of standard services like smtp or HTTP without installing any software on the monitoré host. An agent ZABBIX can also be installed on the hosts Linux, UNIX and Windows in order to obtain statistics as the load CPU, the use of the network, the disk space...

ZABBIX can finally carry out monitoring via SNMP. ZABBIX is distributed under licence GNU General Public License Version 2 (LPG v.2).