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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

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)

Creating maps to keep an eye on infrastructure

Maps in Zabbix are a great way to get an overview of infrastructure—for instance, they're amazing for following traffic flows or seeing where something is going off in your environment. They're not only super-useful for network overviews but also for server management overviews, and even for a lot of cool customization.

Getting ready

We will need our Zabbix server, our SNMP-monitored host, and the templates from the previous recipe.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start this recipe off by navigating to Configuration | Template and selecting our Template OS Linux by SNMPvX template.
  2. Go to Discovery rules and then Item prototypes. Create the following item prototype by filling in the fields in the Item prototype creation page:

    Figure 5.9 – Item prototype creation page

  3. Don't forget to add the Preprocessing:

    Figure 5.10 – Item prototype Preprocessing creation page

  4. Click on the...