Get current status from httptest (Zabbix)

Hitting F1 or h will show you the key. But for reference, the default colors are:

CPU:

• Blue = Low priority threads
• Green = Normal priority threads
• Red = Kernel threads

Memory:

• Green = Used memory
• Blue = Buffers
• Yellow/Orange = Cache

There are a couple of different color-schemes available, you can see them through hitting F2.

Once you install the server and it's php frontend, log into the frontend. On the dashboard, you get a little summary. Make sure that that says "zabbix server is running: yes" before doing any agent stuff.

Then, when all that works as planned, start configuring the agents. First do the agent on the zabbix server itself:

After you have installed the agent, it needs to be configured appropriately. The configuration is done in the configuration file. For Linux/Unix operating systems it is located in "/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf" and for windows it is called "c:/zabbix_agentd.conf" by default.

There are two settings in this file that are really important: 'Server' and 'Hostname'.

The 'Server' setting needs to be set to whatever the ip or fqdn of your server is.

The 'Hostname' setting can be set to anything you like, but it is preferrable to choose a lowercase name without spaces or strange symbols. A good choice is to use the hostname of the server with your company name or site address as suffix. Let's say you have a server called workhorse, and your site is called example.com. Then you would choose hostname=workhorse.example.com as the value for the 'hostname' setting in the configuration file. Note that the value you choose for hostname in the configuration file doesn't need to be equal to the actual hostname of the server.

Next, go into the php frontend, add a host and set it's ip address or dns correctly. Also, set the name field to the value you chose in the agent config file. After saving, restart the agent and all should be well :)

Good luck!