Foreman VS Zabbix

Foreman Reviews

Zabbix Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | 11 months ago
   Indispensable

   Zabbix has been part of my toolbox for quite some time. I can easily say it's an indispensable tool for me now.

   Managing a dozen servers without Zabbix would be unimaginable. I'm monitoring all of this: CPU, Memory, Hard-drives, website response times, downtime. The UI might be a bit "old school", but everything works flawlessly.

   With regards to hard-drive monitoring, I love the machine learning option that allows you to "predict" the number of days before running out of space. That's quite helpful, as I've got some of my servers down due to running out of space multiple times in the past (before I was using Zabbix).

   👍 Pros:    Open-source|It can monitor everything

   👎 Cons:    The ui is a bit unintuitive in some cases

Foreman mentions (18)

• Deploying 100+ windows 10 devices per week. Need to automate.

  In case you're unable to use intune, a free approach might be https://theforeman.org/ That works well for provisioning baremetal windows (with discovery image or pxe boot) once you've set it up. It supports script access as well as a nice hierarchy for configurations. But it's really not as well documented as it should be. Source: 12 months ago

• Configuration Management Tools for 20-30 servers

  I use the foreman with puppet and pxe/kickstart scripts to automate VM/baremetal provisioning etc. Source: 12 months ago

• Server management tool with GUI

  Might want to look into https://theforeman.org/ if it's not too complex for you. Source: over 1 year ago

• Stockpiling Linux ISOs?

  The iso images are typically locked at a certain verison. The update repositories sounds like what you are looking for to cache updates. Look into theforeman.org and specifically the plugin Katello. This is an upstream for Red Hat's Satellite product. Another option would be Canonical's MAAS. Both of these options Sound like what you are headed for unless you really just mean synchronize into a folder and store... Source: over 1 year ago

• Repo satellite 6 beta error 404 repomd.xml

  Alternatively, you can use Foreman+Katello, the upstream base of Satellite, to get started in learning the platform. You can also use the component matrix to use the versions that most closely resemble Satellite. Source: over 1 year ago

Zabbix mentions (5)

• Learning Resources

  Official Zabbix trainings, documentation on zabbix.com ? Source: over 1 year ago

• zabbix installation

  Hallo, do you know a howto to install zabbix on an ubuntu 20.04 ? I tried the manuals from zabbix.com for MySQL Apache but it didn't work. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How I am getting experience as a linux admistrator (Follow Up)

  He suggested that I indeed should set up a home-lab. To be specific he said that I should create a minimal install of Centos 8 and install zabbix server on it (https://zabbix.com) and monitor a whole bunch of other VMs, services and stuff.. He said that I should set up a variety of VMs and also maybe host a website on one of them. And then if I was able to do that, I could help to share a load of zabbix related... Source: about 2 years ago

• Ubuntu Impish 21.10 / Zabbix 6.0 LTS

  This is a fresh 21.10 install, using the install repo as detailed on the zabbix.com download page. Source: about 2 years ago

• One dev conference speaker's family member died, need your help to fill the speaking slot on Nov 27/28

  Well, if you can't find anyone, I am more than happy to fill the slot with something regarding Zabbix - just let me know ;). Source: over 2 years ago