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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By : Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche
Book Image

Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By: Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche

Overview of this book

Nowadays, monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your system’s performance, but also to forecast capacity issues. This is where Zabbix, one of the most popular monitoring solutions for networks and applications, comes into the picture. With an efficient monitoring system in place, you’ll be able to foresee when your infrastructure runs under capacity and react accordingly. Due to the critical role a monitoring system plays, it is fundamental to implement it in the best way from its initial setup. This avoids misleading, confusing, or, even worse, false alarms that can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department. This course is for administrators who are looking for an end-to-end monitoring solution. It will get you accustomed with the powerful monitoring solution, starting with installation and explaining the fundamentals of Zabbix. Moving on, we explore the complex functionalities of Zabbix in the form of enticing recipes. These recipes will help you to gain control of your infrastructure. You will be able to organize your data in the form of graphs and charts along with building intelligent triggers for monitoring your network proactively. Toward the end, you will gain expertise in monitoring your networks and applications using Zabbix. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Zabbix Network Monitoring-Second Edition Zabbix Cookbook Mastering Zabbix-Second Edition
Table of Contents (51 chapters)
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Credits
Preface
6
Detecting Problems with Triggers
7
Acting upon Monitored Conditions
Bibliography
Index

Specifying uptime and downtime


With SLA monitoring configured, we can happily proceed with making sure our systems run smoothly; we do some maintenance during a properly-scheduled maintenance period, only to discover that our SLA level has dropped. Was sure downtime during maintenance periods would not be counted against the SLA monitoring? Wrong. Zabbix host and host group-level maintenance does not affect SLA monitoring. If something is down during such a maintenance, Zabbix still considers that as an unacceptable unavailability of the service.

Note

Host and host group-level maintenance was discussed in Chapter 5, Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions.

There is a way to avoid calculating SLA data for a specific period, though. Let's go to Configuration | IT services and click on Code repository. In the service properties, switch to the Time tab. Here we may add three types of time periods:

  • Uptime

  • Downtime

  • One-time downtime

Let's start with the simplest one—the One-time downtime. When adding...