Network Monitoring: Topology Selection, Zabbix Installation, SNMP Monitoring Setup, Performance Baseline, Shared Folder Troubleshooting

NETWORK MONITORING

1. NM Topology Selection
Multiple devices needs to be monitored. Hence SNMPv3 client server architecture will be the
best monitoring architecture.
The devices placement will be in the following architecture.
In SNMP v1 and SNMPv2 the clients/managers collect the process details about various nodes in
the network. The manager will be running in a central server.
The agents/servers are piece of software or a software mini application running in the local
system. The local system supports SNMP. The agents collect the details of the local system and
stores the details in the management information base database. In SNMPv3 the concept of
managers/agents are replaced by SNMP entities. Each entry got its own SNMP engine and a
SNMP application. The engine got the despatcher, the message processing sub system, the
security sub system and the access control sub system.
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The application part can have command generator, command responder, notification originator,
notification receiver and proxy forwarder. These details are shown in the following diagrams.
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2. ZABBIX installation
Visited ZABBIX website and got many options to install ZABBIX server as a VM. The VM got
ZABBIX Network Monitoring software installed with MySQL back end (Rihards Olups., 2016).
Installed zabbix appliance from its source website https://www.zabbix.com/download_appliance
Downloaded
Initially the OVF file was in TARG.GZ format. Need to extract OVF fromt hat file
Got VMDK and OVF files.
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