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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You'll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network. You'll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you'll 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 Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Setting up triggers

Triggers are important in Zabbix because they notify you as to what's going on with your data. We want to get a trigger when our data reaches a certain threshold.

So, let's get started with setting up some cool triggers. There are loads of different options for defining triggers, but after reading this recipe you should be able to set up some of the most prominent triggers. Let's take your trigger experience to the next level.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our Zabbix server ready and we will need a Linux host. I will use the lar-book-agent_simple host from the previous chapter because we already have some items on that.

We'll also need one more host that is monitored by the Zabbix agent with the Zabbix agent template. We'll use one of the items on this host to create a trigger. This will be the lar-book-agent_passive host from the previous chapter.

On this host, we will already have some triggers available, but...