Subject In my previous article I described only a very simple part of my monitoring solution for bacula, the focus was on discovering backup jobs and only job exit status was monitored. In this article, I’ll add more monitoring parameters and create some graphs. Symptoms The challenge here is that no further job parameters are…
Category: zabbix
Monitor bacula backup jobs with zabbix
Subject There is an email notification mechanism built in into bacula out of the box. It really sends out email notification after each job. This works, but in the case a job is stuck and who reads emails after all? So I decided to make my zabbix monitoring solution to handle this. Symptoms Here is what…
md raid and zabbix
Subject In this article I explain how to setup Software RAID monitoring with zabbix. The solution will use two ways – active monitoring (polling) of an array status and passive traps for array events, sent out by the mdadm daemon. Symptoms There were two challenges to deal with. First, even configured properly the e-mail notification…