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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups
Book Image

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups

Overview of this book

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring is the perfect starting point for monitoring the performance of your network devices and applications with Zabbix. Even if you’ve never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly. You’ll learn to monitor more sophisticated operations with ease and soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Starting with the installation, you will discover the new features in Zabbix 4.0. You will then get to grips with native Zabbix agents and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. This book also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting, so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies. Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you will understand how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book also helps you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. By the end of this book, you will have learned more advanced techniques to fine-tune your system and make sure it is in a healthy state.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)

Using Net-SNMP

If you installed Zabbix from the distribution packages, SNMP support should be already included. If you compiled Zabbix from the source, it should still have SNMP support, as we included that in the configure flags. All that's left to do is set up SNMP monitoring configuration. Before we do that, we'll need a device that has an SNMP agent installed. This is where you can choose between various options; you can use any networked device that you have access to, such as a manageable switch, network printer, or a UPS with an SNMP interface. As SNMP agents usually listen on port 161, you will need the ability to connect to such a device on this port over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Although TCP is also supported, UDP is much more widely used.

If you don't have access to such a device, you could also start up an SNMP daemon on a computer. For example...