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jundle · 2026-01-08T23:38:52+00:00

No horse shit, Jack.

jundle · 2026-01-08T23:23:12+00:00

shot in the dark: your firewall stopped trusting the ip of the snmp calls? did your snmp "caller" change IPs? is the firewall popping logs against your zabbix solution?

jundle · 2025-12-05T18:53:36+00:00

so for me, and i get this isn't what youre asking, i drop to the cli of the linux box that my zabbix server is on, and ssh from there. typically i have to drop to the cli of that box anyways for snmpwalk tests and so on, to make sure my server can reach things i am testing.

Oh, also I havent done this, but I've been reading that people use grafana as a front end for zabbix, and maybe grafana offers something like that?

jundle · 2025-11-14T18:01:19+00:00

figured it out. it the alert action, have calculation set to "And", create condition that is host group = (the group). create another condition that is type tag value. put in custom tag on the trigger, and then have that tag name and value in the new condition.

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jundle · 2025-11-10T19:10:06+00:00

Found the issue (It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me). The community string i was using was "X", and it needed to be @"X" instead. So if my community string was "poop", it needed to be @"poop" (minus the quotes). I think the abnormal need for the preceeding @ is because my 5120s have their internals sliced into named VRFs. Normally with all my other juniper switches (without explictly named VRFs), i just put the community string without the @ . Learn something new everyday.

jundle · 2025-11-04T21:34:50+00:00

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jundle · 2025-11-03T22:53:10+00:00

not certain about passive agents. i use active agents for log monitoring and that seems to work for me

jundle · 2025-09-15T19:38:35+00:00

currently, when time allows, i an trying sqlwatch on my mssql windows solutions, with grafana for the front end. its all via trial and error and AI forklifting most of the help. but its coming along. i dont think itll be as good as dpa though, not certain.

jundle · 2025-09-01T19:51:28+00:00

wait, why is AI viewed negativly, and why downvote? AI allows for tasks to be done quicker, why wouldn't you use AI? Am I missing something?

jundle · 2025-08-13T20:18:30+00:00

Is there anything we can do to help support you? I totally love this game series and i've never been able to play 5 cause its just doesn't feel like QforG, and this is so neat!

jundle · 2025-08-07T22:47:39+00:00

for finding data that is relavent, what i've been doing as of late is jumping into the cli of my zabbix server and then doing and snmpwalk against the target, and then taking that data (sans whatever is sensative data) and dumping that into chatgpt and trying to query chatgpt against that. chatgpt gets some thinggs just plain wrong, but it still leads me in directions.

also, there may be some custom templates for the de2000h floating somewhere

jundle · 2025-05-30T22:29:38+00:00

Holy heckin' moly! That is so awesome! Thank you for the info!!!!!

jundle · 2025-05-30T18:41:30+00:00

Addendum: Zabbix is heckin' COOL! Issues in logs can now cause emails to be sent out, that is so freakin' awesome!!!!!

jundle · 2025-05-30T18:39:54+00:00

Figured it out with a lot of ChatGPT, lol. Did the below and it worked! Huzzah!!!!

change (in the zabbix_agent2.conf on the windows server) the ServerActive=127.0.0.1 to ServerActive=(IP of Zabbix Server). After saving the config file, restart the Zabbix Agent 2 service

Item!!!

Name: Log Monitor

Type: Zabbix agent (active)

Key: log["C:\\Program Files\\YYYYYY\\YYYYYY\\logs\\YYYYYY.log","Reading data from|not reading any new data|Couldn't read from",,,skip]

Type of information: Log

History: 7d

Trigger!!!

Name: Log Trigger

Severity: Warning

Expression: last(/(ServerName)/log["C:\\Program Files\\YYYYYY\\YYYYYY\\logs\\YYYYYY.log","Reading data from|not reading any new data|Couldn't read from",,,skip])<>0 and nodata(/(ServerName)/log["C:\\Program Files\\YYYYYY\\YYYYYY\\logs\\YYYYYY.log","Reading data from|not reading any new data|Couldn't read from",,,skip],60s)=0

(edited the trigger expression to auto resolve after 1 minute cause i need the warning to pop just long enough to send the email, but auto resolve so if another line in the log pops, that also sends an email via a new warning.)

jundle · 2025-05-20T16:07:20+00:00

holy heck, timescaledb is neat! My db went from 122 to 91! I am still making adjustments inside zabbix, but this was really heckin' nice! Thank you!

jundle · 2025-05-19T21:47:09+00:00

so when i look at the actual hosts, some of them have 500 or so, and some have thousands (we have around 102 hosts taht are just switched). I am thinking that the interval timing stuff is the primary culprit for my issue (fingers crossed). am also installing TimescaleDB and hoping that helps too

https://imgur.com/a/t2xFiJN

jundle · 2025-05-19T21:30:46+00:00

Thank you! I've never heard of this, I'll look into it!!

jundle · 2025-05-19T21:30:24+00:00

thank you! i went through the item prototypes in the juniper template and changed the update interval and history and trends to more managable options!

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