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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)

Using the new Zabbix Geomap widget

Now that we have seen how to create dashboards in the previous recipe, let's set up another dashboard. We'll use this one to create a full-fledged geographical overview of some of our hosts in Zabbix. We'll do this by using the Zabbix inventory functionality we have just learned how to use.

Getting ready

All we need for this recipe is our Zabbix setup with access to the frontend. It is also smart to follow the previous two recipes about dashboards and inventory. If you have not followed those yet, it is recommended to follow them first.

How to do it…

Using the Zabbix Geomap functionality is quite easy. We simply need to use our Zabbix inventory on our hosts in combination with a dashboard widget:

  1. First, let's navigate to our Configuration | Hosts page and edit one of our hosts. I'll be using the lar-book-templated_snmp host.
  2. Go to the Inventory tab and make sure that it is set to Manual or Automatic...