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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)

Discovering JMX objects

In Chapter 2, Setting up Zabbix Monitoring, we went over setting up JMX monitoring in the recipe titled Setting up JMX monitoring. What we didn't cover yet though was discovering JMX objects.

In this recipe, we will go over how to set up JMX objects with LLD, and after you've finished this recipe, you'll know just how to set it up.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the JMX host that you set up for the Setting up JMX monitoring recipe in Chapter 2, Setting up Zabbix Monitoring. Make sure to follow that recipe before working on this one.

We will also need our Zabbix server with our Zabbix JMX host titled lar-book-jmx.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start this recipe off by logging in to our Zabbix frontend and navigating to Configuration | Templates.
  2. Create a new template by clicking on Create template in the top-right corner. Fill in the following fields:

    Figure 6.39 – Configuration | Templates, Create...