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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 alerts

Alerting can be a very important part of your Zabbix setup. When we set up alerts, we want the person on the other end to be informed of just what is going on. It's also important to not spam someone with alerts; we want it to be effective.

So, in this recipe, we will go over the basics of setting up alerts, so we know just how to get it right from the start.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will only need two things. We will have to use our Zabbix server to create our alerts and we will need some triggers, like the triggers from the previous recipe. The triggers will be used to initiate the alerting process to see just how the Zabbix server will convey this information.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by setting up our action in the Zabbix frontend. To do this, we will navigate to Configuration | Actions and we will be served with this screen:

Figure 4.25 – The Zabbix Trigger actions page with 1 trigger...