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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

Automatic discovery


We will create a separate host, which will be the starting point for the discovery. This host won't do anything else for us besides monitoring generic VMware parameters and discovering all other entities. Go to Configuration | Hosts and click on Create host. Enter VMware in the Host name field, clear out existing groups in the In groups block, and enter VMware in the New group field. Switch to the Macros tab, and fill in values for these three macros:

  • {$URL}: The VMware API/SDK URL in the form https://server/sdk

  • {$USERNAME}: The VMware account username

  • {$PASSWORD}: The VMware account password

Note

The API or SDK is available on vSphere or vCenter systems.

Now, switch to the Templates tab, start typing vmware, choose Template Virt VMware, and click on the Add control in the Link new templates section. When done, click on the Add button at the bottom.

What's next? Well, nothing. If everything has been done right, everything should be monitored automatically. Hypervisors should...