Although bond rates have fallen this year, interest rates on 7 to 10 year bonds of high quality U.S. companies sit at around 3.14%, compared with the 10-year Treasury, which hit an all-time closing low of 1.37% Tuesday. As noted, corporate bonds are safe but considered riskier than government debt. The Wall Street Journal reported a likely increase in global interest in U.S. corporate bonds, driving down yields as well as borrowing costs for U.S. companies.
Zabbix is enterprise open source monitoring software for networks and applications, created by Alexei Vladishev. It is designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware. Zabbix uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle or IBM DB2 to store data. Its backend is written in C and the web frontend is written in PHP. Zabbix offers several monitoring options:
On Windows, compiling software is less common and most users get binary distributions, which is exactly what we will do now. The Windows build of the Zabbix agent can be obtained from two official locationsâeither from the download page at http://www.zabbix.com/download.php, or from the source archive.t looks like everything is fine on the monitored host, which we will now have to configure in the frontend. Open Configuration | Hosts, and click Create Host, then fill in the following values: 1  Name: Enter Windows box. 2  Groups: Select Windows servers in the Other Groups. 3  IP address: Enter the IP address of that host.