Prisma and Zabbix Direct provide comprehensive solutions for monitoring and managing Zabbix servers.
Both are accessible through the IntelliTrend Mobile app, with Prisma additionally offering a web frontend for use in a browser.
Prisma extends Zabbix with enterprise-grade features like a powerful reporting engine, Self Provisioning and anomaly detection with Prisma AI.
Zabbix Direct, which is available exclusively through IntelliTrend Mobile, enables direct access to your Zabbix server from mobile devices. This solution is ideal for individual users or smaller organizations with single-server monitoring needs.
Prisma is a more comprehensive server solution, primarily designed for larger organizations with complex monitoring requirements. It enhances Zabbix with enterprise-grade features while incorporating all Zabbix Direct functionality.
Accessible via both the IntelliTrend Mobile app and web browsers, it supports connecting to multiple Zabbix servers simultaneously.
IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix
IntelliTrend Mobile provides a smooth mobile experience for monitoring your Zabbix servers, allowing continuous awareness of your monitoring environment and rapid response capabilities.
If you haven’t installed the app yet, you can download it from the following stores:
The app operates in two distinct modes: Zabbix Direct and Prisma. This choice between modes is only available when using the app, as Zabbix Direct is IntelliTrend Mobile for Zabbix exclusive, as well as our unique push notification service. The differences between both modes are explained in their respective chapters: Zabbix Direct and Prisma.
For a quick comparison between the two modes, refer to the table provided in this chapter.
Zabbix Direct
Zabbix Direct is designed for individual users seeking to monitor their Zabbix server and receive push notifications for specific events. It communicates directly with a Zabbix server’s frontend using the Zabbix API over HTTP/HTTPS, and is accessible exclusively through the IntelliTrend Mobile app for Zabbix.
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The solution features a comprehensive dashboard and dedicated sections for monitoring issues, configured triggers, host groups, hosts, items, graphs, and services. In addition to displaying Zabbix-generated graphs, Zabbix Direct creates custom visualizations and lists for both numeric and text items. This functionality parallels that of Prisma’s Zabbix Client.
The app can be downloaded for free and offers a free trial period for Zabbix Direct. Past the trial period, a subscription is required.
Prisma
Expanding upon the capabilities of Zabbix Direct, Prisma offers advanced functionality like reporting capabilities, Self Provisioning features and anomaly detection with Prisma AI. It includes role-based access control and allows management of multiple different Zabbix servers.
The mobile app and the Prisma web frontend communicate with the Prisma Server via HTTP/HTTPS. The Prisma Server in turn communicates with the respective Zabbix frontend using the Zabbix-API over HTTP/HTTPS.
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Prisma is designed to be horizontally scalable, enabling efficient management of multiple Zabbix servers and complex organizational structures. It offers comprehensive visualization of organizational hierarchies with a robust role-based authorization system for effective user management.
The solution is accessed easily through an intuitive user portal and mobile application.
This makes Prisma particularly well-suited for system integrators, MSPs, MaaS providers, and large corporations operating multiple independent Zabbix servers.
While Prisma doesn’t require a subscription, a valid Prisma account is necessary for usage. This account can be used with the IntelliTrend Mobile app and also the web based Prisma user portal.
Self Provisioning
Prisma Self Provisioning is defined by two key features: Maintenances and Alerts.
Maintenance: Allows to put single hosts or entire host groups into maintenance directly via the app. Hosts and host groups in maintenance mode can further be configured to continue collecting data, or to suspend data collection during the maintenances.
Alerts: Provides options to enable or disable alerts for specific host groups in response to configurable severity levels of problems. These alerts utilize the media types configured on the Zabbix server. Notably, users can opt to receive push notifications on their mobile devices through IntelliTrend Mobile.
AI
Prisma AI enables training and using artificial intelligence models for anomaly detection. These models are trained on multivariate time series data from item histories of a Zabbix server. Datasets can be extracted from a Zabbix server’s history and AI models trained to be tailored to the hosts that training-data was derived from.
IntelliTrend’s AI Server is able to process new values from Zabbix servers in real time, executing models as soon as the data arrives and sending metrics about loss back to Zabbix. The received data can further be processed using regular actions and triggers to alert users about detected anomalies. In combination with the push notification service, users can be alerted about these anomalies directly on their mobile device.
Reporting
Another distinctive feature of Prisma is the capability to configure, generate, and receive reports. Reports are created by utilizing widgets to visualize various data from a Zabbix server. Reports generation and dispatch can be scheduled to automatically occur at regular intervals. For users to receive reports, a subscription to the desired reports is required and the format in which reports are generated can be selected. Available options include PDF, JSON, XML, and CSV.
There are multiple valid entry points, depending on the product and user type in question.
Users who have not yet completed setting up their Zabbix server in Prisma should refer to the Prisma manager manual to get started with Prisma.
Users who have finished setting up their Zabbix server in Prisma and/or simply want to get started with Prisma user features like Self Provisioning, Reporting or Prisma AI, can refer to the Prisma user manual.
Documentation for Zabbix Direct users of the IntelliTrend Mobile app for Zabbix. Includes references to the Zabbix Client and documentation about push notifications
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