Right now, we just got started so we’re still below 100. We plan to grow to possibly several thousands though.

Thank you for the information. How many servers do you monitor with zabbix?

We’re using zabbix + puppet fro tribily.com and are overall very happy with it.

One gotcha that will save you a lot fo time is that it is currently impossible (in any proper way) to install zabbix server from a puppet recipe on debian lenny using backports.
It’s a combination of the zabbix server package doing some nasties with dbconfig-common and the way preseeding works which is actually broken.

Other then that, highly recommended. For Puppet, there’s foreman as a web interface, which is supposedly more advanced then the puppet dashboard. We haven’t tried either of them so far, so I can give you no opinion.

If you need more info, #zabbix on freenode and # puppet on the same are very good places to get info. You can also email me directly if you have specific questions. I can possibly give you some of our puppet recipes also. We are looking to opensource them soon, but currently they have too much private information in them 🙂

cheers,

Walter

Thanks for the information! I’m not (yet) active in the Zabbix community — any ETA on 2.0?

a wild guess would be the second quarter of this year 🙂
although individual features will be available in alpha builds before that, just like some already are in just released 1.9.1

second, yeah, you can use api to populate inventory data. also, there might be automated inventory data gathering available in zabbix 2.0, unless you need the functionality right now.