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Compiling Zabbix for small headless server

Göran Sander

Turns out the Bubba2 (and of course Bubba3) can run latest version (2.0.2) of Zabbix quite ok, at least when only monitoring a handful of servers.

I created a brief installation instruction for bubba here.

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Göran Sander Stockholm, Sweden

Qlik Sense consultant and toolmaker at Ptarmigan Labs. Ten years at Spotify, Qlik Luminary and Partner Ambassador, author of the open source Butler tools.

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