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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

Monitoring discrete sensors


The sensor list shows some sensors where the value is quite clear: temperatures, fan RPMs, and so on. Some of these can be a bit more tricky, though. For example, your sensor listing could have a sensor called Power Unit Stat or similar. These are discrete sensors. One might hopefully think that they could return 0 for an OK state and 1 for Failure, but they're usually more complicated. For example, the power unit sensor can actually return information about eight different states in one retrieved value. Let's try to monitor it and see what value we can get in Zabbix for such a system. Navigate to Configuration | Hosts, click on Items next to IPMI host, and click on Create item. Fill in the following:

  • Name: Enter Power Unit Stat (or, if your IPMI-capable device does not provide such a sensor, choose another useful sensor)

  • Type: IPMI agent

  • Key: Power_Unit_Stat

  • IPMI sensor: Power Unit Stat

When done, click on the Add button at the bottom.

Note

If normal sensors...