Monitor Windows Servers with Zabbix: WMI, PerfMon, and Agent Configuration

[@zabbixtraining]

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[@sergiomedina6460]

Hello Dimitry thanks for the video, Why did you install the zabbix agent and not zabbix agent2? I have had problems with zabbix agent2 mainly on windows servers. Which version do you recommend?

[@overproof1460]

i'd like to know as well

[@KikiNation1]

For Windows Servers, do you have to manually add all your hosts (servers) in the Zabbix portal one by one? Isn't there a way to run a network discovery with IP range and Domain Admin Credentials to discover all your hosts? Also, I am completely new to Zabbix and it will probably take me a while to understand everything from start (installation) to finish. From your posted videos, is there a sequence I should follow so it makes sense step by step? Thank you for your great videos!

[@Crysalis02010]

You need to have the agent installed on these servers first. You can then run a discovery to detect the agents and create the hosts.

[@MrArchie1279]

can i still monitor windows servers without installing the agent? what are the things I can monitor and capture with agentless windows devices?

[@stavrosk7894]

Thank you @Dmitry for this one request, is it possible to do a short video on how to connect MS SQL Server? Talking about version 6.4.12 and later, there is a new template for MS SQL, I did manage to have my SQL Server with ODBC but from what I hear the new template is better in terms of collecting info

[@fithariono226]

i have also done as you show in the video but i am getting this error "Get value from agent failed: ZBX_TCP_READ() failed: [104] Connection reset by peer" and it says host unavailable how to handle it?

[@AlexDiamantopulo]

One very painful topic is how to monitor process CPU usage under Windows properly?

[@zimmersky420]

i've done as u showed in the video but i get this error "Get value from agent failed: ZBX_TCP_READ() failed: [104] Connection reset by peer" and it says host is unvailable

[@so_it]

hi you explain well but you dont go to the end of explication.. you dont create the item or trigrer... with the regular expression... for us to see how it works... :( but very well explain).

[@rapiudinsaputra1057]

how do? i monitor the hosts in my cloud virtual machine i create a zabbix server on alibaba ubuntu cloud ip. and I want to monitor it how??

[@danilodistefanis5990]

Dmitry, I’m having trouble monitoring my home computer. My fw is open but the agent does not seem to connect to the server. Doesn’t the agent ensure a connection regardless or network config?

[@zabbixtraining]

Make sure that Server= parameter IP address matches IP of your Zabbix server. And home computer IP is set as interface IP address in frontend for Agent interface.

[@bukvajzr]

love ya

[@zabbixtraining]

Thank you :)

[@giovannip.6473]

hello guys, i really need a help.. i installed zabbix server in azure, and works fine with the local network where it is. But now i am trying to add an agent on a remote vmWare Windows Server (remote, not in the same network). Zabbix is only able to see some datas from the agent but the agent availabilty is still Red... any advice?

[@joseduarte1240]

If i join the patreon i still can have your help in private?

[@user-uf7nb9ju7n]

Monitoring Windows RDP Terminal Users with Zabbix

[@BillMac1966]

How do you make those damn CDPUserSvc and WpnUserService alerts go away? I've tried several methods I've seen but nothing makes them stop

[@zabbixtraining]

For service status monitoring?

[@BillMac1966]

@@zabbixtraining Yes.

[@zabbixtraining]

@@BillMac1966 Some windows services despite their startup status "Automatic", do their job and then get stopped. I would recommend to simply filter out those services in regular expression in your LLD.

[@johnenxada9995]

@@BillMac1966 I think that you do it either via the LLD Overrides or the Filters (with a global regex expression) but I'm not quite sure what is the proper way though. Forums and Reddit are full of those posts and I think there is a confusion which is the 'right' way to do this. @Dmitry that would be a cool video actually to explain this as most users experience this problem. Also, what would be the more 'future-proof' implementation of blacklisting services in case we want to import the latest template version for windows hosts?

[@zabbixtraining]

@@johnenxada9995 In the Filters tab of LLD there is an option to add via regex services that you don't want to discover.

[@pepeshopping]

Windows WMI is going away!

[@Danno911]

WMIC is going away, not WMI

[@mateckz]

LOL, WMI isnt going away ever, or anytime soon .