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Monitor Setup guide
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This document gives the guide of how to set up monitor tools used in Bottlenecks project.

Zabbix
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Zabbix is the ultimate enterprise-level software designed for real-time monitoring of millions of metrics collected from tens of thousands of servers, virtual machines and network devices. Zabbix is Open Source and comes at no cost.

The link https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/installation/install_from_packages gives the instalation guide of Zabbix in linux servers. After the installation of Zabbix server and agent, there is a need to configure the .conf files::

   vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf

       Server=<Server_IP>
       ServerActive=<Server_IP>
       Hostname=<Agent_IP>

To add the Zabbix agent host to be monitored, please click Configuration->Hosts->Create host on the Zabbix server dashboard.