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Zabbix Cookbook

Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven
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Zabbix Cookbook

Zabbix Cookbook

4.5 (4)
By: Patrik Uytterhoeven
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Overview of this book

If you have some experience with Zabbix and wish to take your infrastructure to the next level, then this book is for you. Before you start with Zabbix, or monitoring in general, it is best to have some basic Linux knowledge and a good understanding of snmp, virtualization, and scripting.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Zabbix Configuration
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1. Zabbix Configuration
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Introduction
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Server installation and configuration
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Agent installation and configuration
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Frontend installation and configuration
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Installing Zabbix from source
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Installing the server in a distributed setup
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2. Getting Around in Zabbix
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2. Getting Around in Zabbix
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Introduction
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Exploring the frontend
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Zabbix definitions
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Acknowledging triggers
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Zabbix architecture
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Getting an overview of the latest data
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3. Groups, Users, and Permissions
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3. Groups, Users, and Permissions
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Introduction
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Creating hosts
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Creating host groups
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Creating users
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Creating user groups
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General administration
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Authenticating users
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4. Monitoring with Zabbix
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4. Monitoring with Zabbix
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Introduction
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Active agents
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Passive agents
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Extending agents
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SNMP checks
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Internal checks
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Zabbix trapper
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IPMI checks
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JMX checks
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Aggregate checks
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External checks
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Database monitoring
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Checks with SSH
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Checks with Telnet
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Calculated checks
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Building web scenarios
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Monitoring web scenarios
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Some advanced monitoring tricks
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Autoinventory
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5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix
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5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix
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Introduction
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Creating triggers
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Testing log files
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Trigger constructor
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More advanced triggers
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Testing our trigger expressions
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6. Working with Templates
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6. Working with Templates
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Introduction
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Creating templates
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Importing and exporting templates
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Linking templates
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Nesting templates
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Macros in templates
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7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix
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7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix
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Introduction
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Creating graphs
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Creating screens
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Creating slideshows
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Building maps in Zabbix
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Creating reports
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Generating SLA reports
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8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies
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8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies
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Introduction
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Configuring Zabbix for VMware
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Monitoring VMware
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Installing a proxy
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Setting up an active proxy
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Setting up a passive proxy
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Monitoring hosts through a proxy
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Monitoring the proxy
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9. Autodiscovery
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9. Autodiscovery
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Introduction
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Configuring network discovery
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Automation after discovery
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Active agent autoregistration
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Low-level discovery
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10. Zabbix Maintenance and API
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10. Zabbix Maintenance and API
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Introduction
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Maintenance periods
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Monitoring Zabbix
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Backups
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Avoiding performance issues
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Zabbix API
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API by example
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A. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix
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A. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix
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Introduction
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Some guidelines to upgrade Zabbix
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Upgrading your Zabbix installation
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Troubleshooting in Zabbix
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Zabbix best practices
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What to expect in Zabbix 3.0
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Zabbix community
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Index
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Index

Passive agents

In this topic, we will show you how to setup your agent as a passive agent only. We will see how to create a passive item for our agent and have a look at how the communication works with our Zabbix server.

Getting ready

For this recipe to work, you need your Zabbix server and the standard login account admin or another super administration account. We also need a host with the agent installed. This can be on another host or on our Zabbix server. There is no need to configure the host configuration file yet.

How to do it …

  1. The first thing we do is make sure that our agent has the proper configuration setup to work as a passive agent. Make sure that in the zabbix_agentd.conf file the ServerActive option is not set and that the option Server is set and points to the Zabbix server.

  2. Remember that the hostname is only for the active agent, so we don't need to define this parameter.

  3. Restart the Zabbix agent (service zabbix-agent restart or RHEL 7 users run systemctl restart zabbix-agent...

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