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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)

Working with Active agent autoregistration

Using discovery to set up your Zabbix agents is a very useful method to automate your host creation. But what if we want to be even more up front with our environment and automate further? That's when we use a Zabbix feature called Active agent autoregistration.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need a new Linux (CentOS 8) host. We will call this host lar-book-lnx-agent-auto. Make sure to install the Zabbix Agent 2 to this host. Besides this new host, we'll also need our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by logging in to our new lar-book-lnx-agent-auto host and change the following file:
    vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.conf
  2. We will then edit the following line in the file. Make sure to enter your Zabbix server IP on this line:
    ServerActive=10.16.16.152
  3. We can also change the following line in the file if we want to set our hostname in the file manually:
    Hostname=lar-book—lnx-agent...