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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management
Technical requirements
Installing the Zabbix server
Setting up the Zabbix frontend
Using the Zabbix frontend
Navigating the frontend
Creating user groups
Creating your first users
Advanced user authentication with SAML
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Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring
Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring
Technical requirements
Setting up Zabbix agent 2 monitoring
Working with SNMP monitoring
Creating Zabbix simple checks and the Zabbix trapper
Working with calculated and dependent items
Creating external checks
Setting up JMX monitoring
Setting up database monitoring
Setting up HTTP agent monitoring
Using Zabbix preprocessing to alter item values
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Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts
Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts
Technical requirements
Setting up triggers
Setting up alerts
Keeping alerts effective
Customizing alerts
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Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates
Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates
Technical requirements
Creating your Zabbix template
Setting up template applications
Creating template items
Creating template triggers
Setting up different kinds of macros
Using LLD on templates
Nesting Zabbix templates
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Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting
Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting
Technical requirements
Creating graphs for accessing visual data
Creating maps to keep an eye on infrastructure
Creating dashboards for getting the right overview
Setting up Zabbix inventory
Working through Zabbix reporting
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Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation
Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation
Technical requirements
Setting up Zabbix Agent discovery
Setting up Zabbix SNMP discovery
Working with Active agent autoregistration
Using the new Windows performance counter discovery
Discovering JMX objects
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Chapter 7: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies
Chapter 7: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies
Technical requirements
Setting up a Zabbix proxy
Working with passive Zabbix proxies
Working with active Zabbix proxies
Monitoring hosts with Zabbix proxy
Using Discovery with Zabbix proxies
Monitoring your Zabbix proxies
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Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services
Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services
Technical requirements
Setting up Slack alerting with Zabbix
Setting up Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix
Using Telegram bots with Zabbix
Integrating Atlassian Opsgenie with Zabbix
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Chapter 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API
Chapter 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API
Technical requirements
Using the Zabbix API for extending functionality
Building a jumphost using the Zabbix API and Python
Creating maintenance periods as a Zabbix User
Enabling and disabling a host from Zabbix maps
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Chapter 10: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup
Chapter 10: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup
Technical requirements
Setting Zabbix maintenance periods
Backing up your Zabbix setup
Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 7.2 or higher
Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5
Upgrading your Zabbix setup
Maintaining Zabbix performance over time
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Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management
Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management
Technical requirements
Setting up MySQL partitioning for your Zabbix database
Securing your Zabbix MySQL database
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Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration
Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration
Technical requirements
Setting up AWS monitoring
Setting up Microsoft Azure monitoring
Building your Zabbix Docker monitoring
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Whether you are a real Zabbix guru or if you've just started working with Zabbix, this book will include some recipes for everyone. We are going over most of the Zabbix basics and we are even doing some cool stuff with the Zabbix API in the book.

We decided to write this book because we want to supply you with the Zabbix information available online and in official Zabbix training in a clear and straightforward way. We've all been through the process of bookmarking all these amazing community blog posts, community guides, and even official documentation. Sometimes it can be a bit much, which is where this book will help. See it as a guide with something for everyone without the need to Google until your fingers fall off.

Now, even if you are experienced, or have finished this and maybe other books and you've bookmarked every useful page about Zabbix, you might still not know everything. This is where we come in. Zabbix is a free product built on an amazing open source community, but besides that, there are some real Zabbix gurus out there that have decided to make a living out of it. Our company, Opensource ICT Solutions, comes from these humble beginnings and we are there to provide our customers with everything they need when it comes to Zabbix. As a Premium Zabbix partner, we provide the following services:

  • Official Zabbix training
  • Official Zabbix support
  • Zabbix consultancy
  • Helpdesk services

So, if you've enjoyed this book, please do think about us and others in our amazing Zabbix community. Give us a follow on LinkedIn (and other social media) and if you ever need help, give us a call! We will definitely be ready to help you out with any questions you might run into.

Brian van Baekel – Founder of Opensource ICT Solutions

WEB: https://oicts.com

EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]

PHONE: +1-929-377-1253 or +31(0)72 743 65 83

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