In this chapter, we introduced you to the all the possible ways that will help you to interact with the server, thus enabling Zabbix to acquire items and metrics that are otherwise unsupported. In this chapter, we saw the steps required to move the Oracle monitoring script from the server side to the client side and then to its final destination—the dedicated server. Here, you learned how a simple script grows until it becomes a complex external software. In each step, you saw the progress and an analysis of the pros and cons of each location that the script passed. This does not mean that you need a dedicated server for all your checks, but if your monitoring of the script is widely and extensively used, then it is a good practice. For each location passed, you saw the positive side and the negative side of that particular placement. Now, you have a global vision of what can be done and which is the right place or point to act. Now, the Zabbix protocols have no more secrets, and...
Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition)
Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition)
Overview of this book
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Zabbix Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Deploying Zabbix
Distributed Monitoring
High Availability and Failover
Collecting Data
Visualizing Data
Managing Alerts
Managing Templates
Handling External Scripts
Extending Zabbix
Integrating Zabbix
Index
Customer Reviews