In this chapter, we explored various things that were either different on Windows, or things that Zabbix explicitly supports on Windows.

We installed the Zabbix agent as a Windows service and verified that, in many ways, it works exactly the same as the Linux agent. Then we moved to Windows-specific feature support:

Not only did we discuss details and potential issues for all of these, we also monitored some data using each of these features. Coupled with the generic monitoring and reporting knowledge we have now, this should allow us to efficiently monitor Windows installations as well.

Having explored quite a lot of lower-level configuration, in the next chapter we will look at a more business-oriented aspect—SLA monitoring. Zabbix allows us to create an IT service tree, assign triggers that depict service availability, and calculate how much of an adherence to the SLA that is.