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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

Zabbix community


When you have finished the recipes in this book, you should have a good understanding of how Zabbix works, but you will probably also have many more questions on how to monitor certain things in your environment.

I encourage you to join the Zabbix community. Zabbix provides a page where all information is gathered from the community, http://www.zabbix.com/community.php.

A lot of information can be found on the Zabbix forums where people have posted questions and received answers for their problems, http://www.zabbix.com/forum.

If you would like to help Zabbix improve or write some hacks of your own then you could download the source code, http://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/ or http://www.zabbix.com/developers.php.

If you need some quick support, your best bet is probably the IRC #zabbix channel on Freenode, where lots of people check in every day, including most of the Zabbix developers: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#zabbix.

Most importantly, don't forget to check out the website www.zabbix.org where people from the community contribute all their knowledge. If you have made some templates or if you have created some interesting hacks such as Action simulator project, that tells you why you were not notified by Zabbix, then this is the page for you to share your knowledge with the rest of the community. After all, that's what open source is all about!

If you live in Belgium, then you could join our Zabbix Meetup group where people talk about their Zabbix setup or other interesting things they have done with Zabbix. Feel free to join to learn more or to host a meeting to show us your Zabbix project: http://www.meetup.com/Belgian-Zabbix-User-Group/.