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Zabbix Requirements Print E-mail

Hardware and software requirements

The ZABBIX Server requires the following system resources:

ResourceMinumumRecommended
Disk space10 MB100 MB
RAM64 MB256 MB
CPUPentiumPentium IV or equivalent

Supported platforms

ZABBIX software runs on:

PlatformZABBIX ServerZABBIX Agent
AIXSupportedSupported
FreeBSDSupportedSupported
HP-UXSupportedSupported
LinuxSupportedSupported
Mac OS XSupportedSupported
Novell Netware-Supported
Open BSDSupportedSupported
SCO Open ServerSupportedSupported
SolarisSupportedSupported
Tru64/OSFSupportedSupported
Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP-Supported

ZABBIX Agent is not required for monitoring of external network services such as FTP, SSH, HTTP, DNS, LDAP, etc.

 

Memory requirements

ZABBIX requires both physical and disk memory. 32 Mb of physical memory and 20 Mb of free disk memory could be a good starting point. However, the amount of required disk memory obviously depends on the number of hosts and parameters that are being monitored. If you're planning to keep a long history of monitored parameters, you should be thinking of at least a couple of gigabytes to have enough space to store the history in the database.

Each ZABBIX daemon process requires several connections to a database server. Amount of memory allocated for the connection depends on configuration of the database engine.

Remember, the more physical memory you have, the faster the database (and therefore ZABBIX) works!
 
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