Monitor Network Equipment with Zabbix – Full Step-by-Step Guide

Learn how to monitor your network devices with Zabbix step by step. In this tutorial, I show you how to monitor switches (Aruba) and firewalls (pfSense) using SNMP and Zabbix agents, create dashboards, generate and visualize traffic with iperf. Perfect for IT admins, network engineers, and sysadmins who want full network visibility. In this video, you’ll learn how to: Enable SNMP on switches for Zabbix monitoring Create host groups in Zabbix Add switches via SNMP into Zabbix Install Zabbix agent on pfSense and use the FreeBSD template Install and run iperf tests to generate traffic for monitoring Build a custom dashboard showing system info, traffic graphs, and problem history 💬 Drop your questions in the comments! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more Zabbix, networking, and sysadmin tutorials. Timestamps 0:00 intro 0:55 Enabling SNMP on the Switch 5:04 Adding the Switch into Zabbix 10:00 Installing Zabbix agent on pfSense 12:52 Adding pfSense in Zabbix 16:20 Create Zabbix Dashboard 18:30 Install iperf on pfSense and Ubuntu 21:28 Bandwidth graph in Zabbix How to Install ZABBIX on Ubuntu:    • Install Zabbix 7.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 (MySQL ...   Zabbix tutorial, network monitoring, monitor switches, pfSense monitoring, SNMP setup, Zabbix dashboard, network traffic graphs, sysadmin guide, IT monitoring