/tags/zerotier/ Recent content in Zerotier on My Blogs Hugo en-us Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/zabbix-homelab-monitoring/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/zabbix-homelab-monitoring/ <h2 id="-problem">🧩 Problem</h2> <p>I wanted a centralized monitoring platform for my homelab that could monitor:</p> <ul> <li>On-premises VMware ESXi hosts</li> <li>Linux virtual machines</li> <li>Windows systems</li> <li>HPE iLO hardware management</li> <li>Cloud-hosted workloads</li> </ul> <p>The challenge was that most of my infrastructure lives behind NAT at home, and I did not want to expose services publicly or configure complex port forwarding.</p> <hr> <h2 id="-solution-overview">🛠️ Solution Overview</h2> <p>I built a <strong>hybrid monitoring architecture</strong> using:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Zabbix 7.0 LTS</strong> hosted in Azure</li> <li><strong>ZeroTier</strong> for secure private connectivity</li> <li><strong>Zabbix Proxy</strong> running locally in my homelab</li> <li><strong>VMware API monitoring</strong> for ESXi</li> <li><strong>SNMP monitoring</strong> for HPE iLO</li> </ul> <p>This design allows cloud-hosted monitoring while keeping home infrastructure private.</p>