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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)

Monitoring hosts with Zabbix proxy

We have our active and passive Zabbix proxies ready to use, so it's now time to add some hosts to them. Setting up the Zabbix frontend to monitor hosts with Zabbix proxies works in about the same way as monitoring directly from the Zabbix server. The backend and design change completely though, which I'll explain in the How it works… section of this recipe.

Getting ready

Make sure you have your lar-book-proxy-passive passive proxy and your lar-book-proxy-active active proxy ready by following all of the previous recipes in this chapter.

You will also need your Zabbix server and at least two hosts to monitor. We will be using lar-book-agent_snmp and lar-book-agent in the example, but any host with an active and passive Zabbix agent will work.

How to do it…

We'll configure a host on both our active and our passive proxies to show you what the difference is between these two. Let's start with the passive...