Problem: After a new installation of Zabbix (appliance) 3.4.6 the time on the graphs were 2 hours ahead. The clock on the server was correct. Solution Edit Zabbix configuration file vi /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zabbix.conf It appeared the timezone in the Zabbix settings is set to Europe/Riga Change php_value date.timezone Europe/Riga to you actual timezone for Read More…
Month: March 2018
Install Zabbix Agent on CentOS
The following describes how to install Zabbix agent 3.4.6 onto CentOS 6.9 1) Add Zabbix Repository rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/3.4/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-3.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm 2) Install Zabbix yum install -y zabbix-agent 3) . Edit zabbix_agentd.conf vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf Server={Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4) Start Zabbix agent service service zabbix-agent start 5) Add Zabbix Agent service to start up scripts Read More…
Install Zabbix Agent on Windows
In this post I will be deployig Zabbix Agent (3.4.6) onto a Windows 2012 R2 system 1. Download the Zabbix agent on the target machine. The .zip file can be downloaded directly from the Zabbix website. 2. Unzip the download to c:\Zabbix 3. Copy C:\Zabbix\confzabbix_agentd.win.conf to c:\Zabbix\zabbix_agentd.conf 4. Edit zabbix_agentd.conf Server=127.0.0.1,{Zabbix_Monitoring_server} Hostname={your_server_name} 4. Install Read More…
Converting Virtual Box OVF to VMware ESXi
Problem: I was attempting to deploy the Zabbix 3.4.x appliance consistiing of an OVF and singled VMDK to a UAT vCenter 5.5 deployment. The following error appeared: The OVF package requires unsupported hardware. Details: Line 25: Unsupported hardware family 'virtualbox-2.2' Solution Edit the OVF (in my case I used notepad++) Change Read More…
vCloud Director 8.20 – API to Grant Privileges to Advanced Gateway
Problem: After upgrading to Advanced Gateway Edge in VCD 8.20 the user is unable to access the new tenant portal due to a permissions issue Example of error message: You need some or all of the following rights [ORG_VDC_GATEWAY_CONFIGURE_SSH, ORG_VDC_GATEWAY_VIEW_SSH] to perform operations [GATEWAY_VIEW_SSH] for (com.vmware.vcloud.entity.gateway:c2c63647-82e7-4a40-8167-xxxxxxxxxx) Solution: To fix the issue a vCloud Director administrator will Read More…
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