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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups
Book Image

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups

Overview of this book

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring is the perfect starting point for monitoring the performance of your network devices and applications with Zabbix. Even if you’ve never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly. You’ll learn to monitor more sophisticated operations with ease and soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Starting with the installation, you will discover the new features in Zabbix 4.0. You will then get to grips with native Zabbix agents and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. This book also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting, so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies. Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you will understand how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book also helps you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. By the end of this book, you will have learned more advanced techniques to fine-tune your system and make sure it is in a healthy state.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)

Summary

In Zabbix, templates play a major role in simplifying the configuration and allowing large-scale changes. If you are a proficient user of word processors, you probably use styles. The same concept is used in text, CSS styles for the web, and elsewhere—separating content from the presentation helps to reduce the amount of work required when changes have to be made.

While the comparison to styles might seem far-fetched at first, it actually is similar enough. Just like styles, you can separate a host from the services you provide, and you can define these services in a centralized fashion. In the same way that a word document has a heading style that allows you to change the font size for all headings of that level with one action, templates in Zabbix allow you to change some parameter for all linked hosts, whether direct or nested.

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