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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)

Setting up Zabbix inventory

Zabbix Inventory is a feature I personally love, but it hasn't had a lot of love from the Zabbix development team lately. Sorry—I still love you, Zabbix developers, but if you're reading this, feel free to put some time into the feature!

The feature makes it possible for us to automatically put collected data in a visual inventory in the Zabbix frontend. Let's get started.

Getting ready

Make sure to log in to the Zabbix frontend, and keep your SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes ready.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by making sure our Zabbix server put all of our hosts' inventory information into the fields. I like to do this by going to Administration | General and then selecting Other from the dropdown in the top-left corner.
  2. We can then set our Default host inventory mode parameter to Automatic. Don't forget to press Update:

    Figure 5.33 – Administration | General | Other configuration...