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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you’ll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Backing up your Zabbix setup

Before working on any Zabbix setup, it is vital to make a backup of everything important. In this recipe, I will take you through some of the most important steps you should always take before doing maintenance on your Zabbix setup.

Getting ready

We are going to need our Zabbix server, for which I'll use lar-book-centos. Make sure to get the CLI to the server ready, as this whole recipe will use the Linux CLI.

How to do it

  1. Let's start by logging in to our Zabbix server via the Linux CLI and create some new directories that we are going to use for our Zabbix backups. Preferably, this directory would be on another hard disk:
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/database/
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/zbx-config/
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/web-config/
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/shared/
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/shared/zabbix/
    mkdir /opt/zbx-backup/shared/doc/
  2. It's important to back up all of our Zabbix configuration data, which is located...