Can Zabbix Help You Monitor Your SSL Certificate Expiry?

I manage many websites, and most with SSL certificates. They expire at various times and it can be quite hard to manage. There are many ways to manage tasks that need doing in the future, but in this article I will demonstrate a method of watching how many days left before a SSL certificate expires using Zabbix.

This method is useful for advanced Zabbix users with SSH access to the Zabbix Server.

On my Zabbix Server, I also have Zabbix Agent running. This is advisable and most Zabbix Server installs will have…