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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 a Zabbix proxy

Setting up a Zabbix proxy can be quite daunting if you don't have a lot of experience with Linux, but the task is quite simple once you get the hang of it. We will install Zabbix proxy to our lar-book-proxy-passive server; you can repeat the task on lar-book-proxy-active.

Getting ready

Make sure to have your new Linux (CentOS 8) host ready and installed. We won't need our Zabbix server in this recipe yet.

You'll need a Zabbix repository for this recipe as well. Check out the following link to find the latest version: https://www.zabbix.com/download.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by logging in to the command-line interface (CLI) of our new lar-book-proxy-passive host.
  2. Now, execute the following command to add the Zabbix repository for CentOS 8:
    rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.0/rhel/8/x86_64/zabbix-release-5.0-1.el8.noarch.rpm
    dnf clean all

    For Ubuntu, execute this command:

    wget https://repo.zabbix.com...