Wouldn't it be fancy if your Zabbix could tell you if your Raspberry Pi would have a pending EEPROM update waiting for you? It's so easy just to upgrade all the packages and forget to update the EEPROM with sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a.
Luckily there's a simple way to make Zabbix to check this for you.
Would you like to get AI added to your Zabbix now? Like, RIGHT NOW? In few minutes with no account, no payment, no server, no scripting, no strings attached?
One of the monZphere's modules that easily flies under the radar without nobody noticing would be their AIModuleMonzphere, freely available from GitHub.
What makes it different? Most likely your AI additions call home to their mothership, or at the very least consult their local LLM server hosted somewhere in your network.
Last year, I did blog about monZphere's custom Zabbix widgets a few times. For those who don't know, monZphere is a company specialized for building custom Zabbix modules and widgets. Some of the modules are free for all of us and can be found from monZphere's GitHub page, some do cost money, but oh boy how their modules do change Zabbix interface and the ways you can use it.
Can you monitor the signal strength of your different Wi-Fi devices that are connected to your (home) router with Zabbix? Of course you can! This is a really quick morning post before I hop on to my work duties, showing also how ChatGPT or any LLM can boost your productivity when doing this kind of things.
In my previous post I did show some command-line tools that could be useful for showing interesting metrics about your Mac. I also told that in the follow-up post I would show you how to monitor your Apple Silicon (with that, I mean Apple M-series chips CPU/GPU/ANE [Apple Neural Engine]) with Zabbix.
I'm almost successful with that, but then still embarrassingly far. This has not been my most successful project so far. I am sure there would be so many better ways -- if so, please let me know!
When using command line, I of course have my trusted tool belt with plenty of legendary shell commands that have been around for decades. But just to keep myself fresh and not become a grumpy Unix greybeard, every now and then I explore what's out there today. Here are some tips that may or may not help you with Zabbix as well.
I've been a bit silent since the Maikki the puppy takes a lot of time. Anyway, here's something different to give you new ideas.
About every company out there is rolling out their new innovative AI solutions (aka "here, have a yet another OpenAI wrapper"), and so am I -- though through local LLMs and shell one-liners to make these ground-breaking innovations tad a bit easier for you to use and brainstorm with new ideas. By using these, you'll be also using reasoning AI running on your local machine, for free. Good boy, you!
Beginning tomorrow, our family life changes as we're going to get a puppy! This might mean I might be a bit more silent here (or then not, we'll see), but also that means that in one way or another, I'm gonna monitor the dog. :)
We're going to have a puppy in about one week. Cannot wait!
BUT ... our home router was in a bit of a danger zone considering the puppy, so I moved the home router from our living room to my home office.
As our home is very much monitored by Zabbix, of course I needed to first setup a maintenance window before starting the move.
Long time ago back in part 21 I blogged on concept level about how to monitor your CCTV streams with Zabbix and some shell scripting. The idea back then was to use mplayer, vlc or similar tool for watching the stream. If the playback stops, then the stream is broken, thus there's something wrong with the camera or the connectivity to it. That method works, but with Zabbix 7.0 and its Selenium tests, it's very much possible to monitor your CCTV natively through Zabbix without any external scripts.
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