1. Sign up for Tribily

Sign up for an account. After you have registered, you receive an email with your login name and password.

2. Install the zabbix agent on the machines you want to monitor

We will be monitoring your machine by using a piece of off-the-shelf open source software called the zabbix agent. You can install the zabbix agent, which is available for many different platforms by following the installation instructions on this page.

3. Edit the configuration file

After you have installed the agent, it needs to be configured appropriately. The configuration is done in the configuration file. For Linux/Unix operating systems it is located in "/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf" and for windows it is called "c:/zabbix_agentd.conf" by default.

There are two settings in this file that are really important: 'Server' and 'Hostname'.

The 'Server' setting needs to be set to 'server=backend.tribily.com' (without the quotes).

The 'Hostname' setting can be set to anything you like, but it is preferrable to choose a lowercase name without spaces or strange symbols. A good choice is to use the hostname of the server with your company name or site address as suffix. Let's say you have a server called workhorse, and your site is called example.com. Then you would choose hostname=workhorse.example.com as the value for the 'hostname' setting in the configuration file.
Note that the value you choose for hostname in the configuration file doesn't need to be equal to the actual hostname of the server.

4. Configure your servers in your control panel

After you are done configuring the agent, go to your server monitoring control panel.
Click 'Add Host' to add your newly configured server to Tribily monitoring. Put the exact name you chose for 'hostname' (in the configuration file at step 3) in the field "Name of the host". For the roles, choose the roles this server has. For some roles you need to take extra steps, others will work straight away.

5. Restart the agent on your server

As a final step you need to restart the agent on the server so that it will start using the new configuration values and will start sending data to our servers. In case you have any problems, see the FAQ for more information or send a mail to support@tribily.com