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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By : Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche
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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

Getting raw data


Raw data is data as it's stored in the Zabbix database, with minor, if any, conversion performed. Retrieving such data is mostly useful for analysis in other applications.

Extracting from the frontend

In some situations, it might be a simple need to quickly graph some data together with another data that is not monitored by Zabbix (yet you plan to add it soon, of course), in which case a quick hack job of spreadsheet magic might be the solution. The easiest way to get data to be used outside of the frontend is actually the frontend itself.

Let's find out how we can easily get historical data for some item. Go to Monitoring | Latest data and select A test host from the Hosts filter field, and then click on Filter. Click on Graph next to CPU load. That gives us the standard Zabbix graph. That wasn't what we wanted, now, was it? But this interface allows us to access raw data easily using the dropdown in the top-right corner—choose Values in there.

If the item has stopped collecting...