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Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven

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Zabbix Cookbook

4.5 (4)

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

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1. Zabbix Configuration

1. Zabbix Configuration

Introduction

Server installation and configuration

Agent installation and configuration

Frontend installation and configuration

Installing Zabbix from source

Installing the server in a distributed setup

2. Getting Around in Zabbix

2. Getting Around in Zabbix

Introduction

Exploring the frontend

Zabbix definitions

Acknowledging triggers

Zabbix architecture

Getting an overview of the latest data

3. Groups, Users, and Permissions

3. Groups, Users, and Permissions

Introduction

Creating hosts

Creating host groups

Creating users

Creating user groups

General administration

Authenticating users

4. Monitoring with Zabbix

4. Monitoring with Zabbix

Introduction

Active agents

Passive agents

Extending agents

SNMP checks

Internal checks

Zabbix trapper

IPMI checks

JMX checks

Aggregate checks

External checks

Database monitoring

Checks with SSH

Checks with Telnet

Calculated checks

Building web scenarios

Monitoring web scenarios

Some advanced monitoring tricks

Autoinventory

5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix

5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix

Introduction

Creating triggers

Testing log files

Trigger constructor

More advanced triggers

Testing our trigger expressions

6. Working with Templates

6. Working with Templates

Introduction

Creating templates

Importing and exporting templates

Linking templates

Nesting templates

Macros in templates

7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix

7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix

Introduction

Creating graphs

Creating screens

Creating slideshows

Building maps in Zabbix

Creating reports

Generating SLA reports

8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies

8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies

Introduction

Configuring Zabbix for VMware

Monitoring VMware

Installing a proxy

Setting up an active proxy

Setting up a passive proxy

Monitoring hosts through a proxy

Monitoring the proxy

9. Autodiscovery

9. Autodiscovery

Introduction

Configuring network discovery

Automation after discovery

Active agent autoregistration

Low-level discovery

10. Zabbix Maintenance and API

10. Zabbix Maintenance and API

Introduction

Maintenance periods

Monitoring Zabbix

Backups

Avoiding performance issues

Zabbix API

API by example

A. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix

A. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix

Introduction

Some guidelines to upgrade Zabbix

Upgrading your Zabbix installation

Troubleshooting in Zabbix

Zabbix best practices

What to expect in Zabbix 3.0

Zabbix community

Index

Index

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Extending agents

Now that you know how to install and configure a Zabbix agent, let's go a bit deeper into the monitoring aspect of the agent. A monitoring system would quickly reach its limits if we don't expand it with our own checks. Many companies require specific checks that are not available as item on our agent. There are a few ways to extend Zabbix, one solution is to work with user parameters. We will see how to extend our agent to monitor beyond the limits of Zabbix.

Getting ready

We need a Zabbix server and a Zabbix agent properly configured. The easiest way is probably by making use of the Zabbix agent that is installed on your Zabbix server.

How to do it …

First thing we can do is extend our agent with user parameters. This must be done in the zabbix_agentd.conf file.

Extend the agent with the UserParameter option such as in this example:

UserParameter=mysql.threads,mysqladmin -u root -p<password> status|cut -f3 -d":"|cut -f1 -d"Q"

This will return the number of MySQL threads...

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