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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)

Using the new Windows performance counter discovery

Since Zabbix 5.0.1, it is possible to discover Windows performance counters. In this recipe, we will go over the process of discovering Windows performance counters to use in our environments.

Discovering Windows performance counters is one of the new features in Zabbix 5. It might still be a little tricky as you probably haven't seen it before, but once we finish this recipe you'll know exactly how to set it up.

Getting ready

In this chapter, we added the lar-book-disc-win host to our setup, which is the host used in our Zabbix Agent discovery process. We can reuse this host for discovering Windows performance counters easily.

Of course, we'll also need our Zabbix server. Windows performance counter discovery is supported starting from Zabbix 5.0.1, so keep this in mind:

yum update

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by navigating to Configuration | Templates and creating a new template...