https://polar-node.work/tags/windows/Recent content in Windows on polar-node // runbooksHugoen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://polar-node.work/posts/custom-zabbix-windows/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://polar-node.work/posts/custom-zabbix-windows/<p>Windows Firewall disabled on multiple hosts. Our monitoring never noticed the change</p> <p>A few months back while working with Zabbix for our mixed environment, I realized that the default Windows template doesn&rsquo;t monitor whether Windows Firewall is actually enabled across its three zones (Domain, Private, and Public). There also wasn&rsquo;t a straightforward way to see who was or still is logged into each Windows machine. For something as critical as firewall status, this felt like an important gap, so I came up with a two-fold solution:</p>