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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

Appendix B. Being Part of the Community

An important aspect of Zabbix is its open source nature. Zabbix is a true open source solution—it's not "open core", and it doesn't have an Enterprise version or some proprietary plugins. Such approaches could be labeled as "fake open source". All components of Zabbix are completely open source; there are no closed or hidden components. Its developers have undertaken to keep Zabbix that way—feel free to look this up in the Zabbix conference 2013 videos: see the opening speech by Zabbix creator Alexei Vladishev, around 27 minutes and 30 seconds in.

Besides being open source, a lot of Zabbix development happens out in the open, too. That makes it easy to closely follow the development and to get community support. But each open source project is different in how it is run and what guidelines it has, so let's look at what one can expect to find from this aspect of Zabbix:

  • Community support can be a great way to solve a problem, by chatting on the IRC channel, looking at the wiki, discussing it on the official forum, or using the open bug tracker

  • Following the development more closely by getting the latest source code can allow one to try out fixes for problems as soon as possible, provide early feedback, and get more familiar with the internals of Zabbix

  • For product development, support contracts, or other services, commercial support might be handy

The development of Zabbix happens out in the open, but external contributions are usually not accepted, except in one area: translations. Contributors to all the translations Zabbix has are welcome, and we will also find out how to get involved in that area.