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Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven
Book Image

Zabbix Cookbook

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Building maps in Zabbix


Maps in Zabbix are a visual representation of your infrastructure. In maps, it is possible to see where the problems are in a visual way. Maps are a kind of interactive network diagrams where we connect individual elements with lines that can show us when a host is unreachable.

Getting ready

For this Zabbix recipe to work, we need a Zabbix server and a host with on server and host a Zabbix client installed. We also need to have the Zabbix server templates attached to the server and the Linux OS templates attached to both hosts. We obviously also need a Zabbix account with super administration rights.

How to do it...

  1. Go in the Zabbix menu to Configuration | Maps.

  2. We will see that there is already a map available. We can edit this one but in this case we will just start with a new map; so click the Create map button.

  3. When we create a new map, we get a window where we have to give a name to our map. We can fill in the Name here of our network.

  4. The Width and Height probably...