

For a small deployment, you install them in the same box. It is really straightforward and lightweight. Its deployment could take as little as one hour per person. You need prior knowledge of Linux, but you don't need specific knowledge of Zabbix to deploy it. Its initial setup is very straightforward. For instance, for Linux servers, you need to have pseudo access to get the necessary information to monitor and that's kind of a hassle.

There are a lot of aspects where they give you base information, however, for other necessary gleams of information, you may need to have high-low. It would help to present information - rather than trying to get the highest level of administrative access to present minimal information. There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better. It's very minimal at this point and getting more information would be pretty vital. We need to get a little bit more information from the thin clients or wireless LAN controllers than we already do.

We're currently just trying to find other info or anybody else who's comparable in terms of other network monitoring solutions. So far, it's been pretty good, however, due to the whole solar flare thing that happened two years ago, a lot of cybersecurity and leadership's kind of looking to replace it with something else.
