Intelligence

Integration of System Administrator's Knowledge

ZABICOM's ability to embed and integrate diagnostic logic created from the knowledge of experienced system administrators significantly improves the quality of system administration. Such diagnostic logics registered as a "trigger" make decisions based on the collected information on behalf of the system administrator.

Aesthetics

Overall System Status Can Be Summarized in a Single Screen

ZABICOM enables you to create a customized monitoring screen. It is possible to show all the information extracted from various graphs and maps on a single screen. You can create different screens with various combinations of information of your choice.

Features of ZABICOM-J

Expanded function for Japan to reduce the load of system administrators

・Acknowledge function for events (Acknowledge function)
“Acknowledge” is a function which approves events. It is used for tracking what responses and actions are taken for events. If required, causes and methods used can be added to the comment field.

・Trigger creation support function for log monitoring (Log Wizard function)‏
Creating triggers for log monitoring is an important task for system administrators. Tracing the wizard screen provides support to create the required triggers. This is an important tool which supports the combination of logic operators and the creation of difficult POSIX-conforming regular expressions.

・Trigger creation support function for trigger settings (Trigger conditional expression support function)
There is a need to combine multiple conditions using logic operators (such as AND and OR) for fine conditional settings of triggers serving as the core of intellectual functions.
With ZABICOM-J, displaying the logical formula in a tree format helps creating triggers with clear prospects. This is also useful for preventing input mistakes such as omitting the closing bracket, etc.
A test function for checking the validity of conditional expressions has been added. This reduces the time consuming verification task in actual use, thereby reducing the load of system administrators.

・ Drag & Drop Map create function (Dynamic MAP creation function)
Conventional MAP creation has been very troublesome work because it is based on coordinate specification.
With ZABICOM-J, more dynamic MAP creation is possible with dragging and dropping of icons.

・ Advanced support of regular expressions on Agent filter (highly functional Agent filter）
In log monitoring by agent, extracting only the parts required with filtering will reduce Agent-Server traffic and the consumption of the disk by data accumulation.
ZABICOM-J's highly functional agent filter allows the fine setting of the filter function, thereby further reducing the load.
Normally, when complicated regular expressions (filtering conditions) are described in parameters of log collecting items, lists and prospects at the editing screen become unclear. A new editing screen has therefore been added to ZABICOM-J.
This screen not only allows conditional expressions to be created easily, but is also very useful to reuse the same conditions at multiple locations with storing filter conditions.

・Sync function of the configuration for backup (replication function )【NTT ComTechnology License】
Config information storing configuration settings of the ZABICOM server can be replicated to the backup server.
Use of this replication function allows config settings to be returned to stable state in the event faults occurred at the ZABICOM server.

・Supports MIB import from SNMP-mounted equipment (standard MIB import function) 【NTT ComTechnology License】
When monitoring equipment mounting SNMP, there is a need to register each monitoring item. This means that additional work is required for each port in the registration of Switch, etc. which have many ports. Even if the Clone (Copy) function is used, this is a very complicated task.
With ZABICOM-J, the load of various information setting work can be sharply reduced by importing MIB information from SNMP-mounted equipment, and creating template XML including the items, trigger, and graph settings for the concerned equipment based on the interface information obtained.

More advanced Japanese language support

ZABICOM-J comes with a Japanese character string search function, Japanese display function of graph titles, and Japanese comment input function, etc. not available with ZABICOM.

Information Extract Function for Report Creation

ZABICOM's simple information extracting function reduces your time and workload to create a report, minimizing the impact from network administration, allowing time to be dedicated to more important business.
Resource information, such as CPU usage and disk space usage can be extracted and imported into a report. This report can be also used as an emergency report for your clients or supervisor in the event of a failure.

Cost Efficiency

Open Source Solution

ZABICOM(ZABBIX) is an open source Web-based enterprise monitoring solution with the full functionality required for system administration. This cost efficient system requires a minimum initial investment, bringing considerable benefits to day-to-day system administration.

License Free

ZABICOM(ZABBIX) is distributed as a free, "copyleft" license product under GPLv2. The ZABICOM_Server can operate with Apache, PHP, MySQL, and their related modules, and ZABICOM's simple configuration ensures stable operations. In Japan, software purchase costs must be counted as assets and are treated as depreciable assets.

All-in-One Package

Many conventional monitoring software applications require the installation of different components for different monitoring purposes. For example, one for monitoring a server, and others for processes, resources, or infrastructure monitoring. ZABICOM's open source nature, eliminates the usual costs charged for upgrading and so cost effectiveness over the long term becomes significant.