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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)

Working with active agent autoregistration

Using discovery to set up your Zabbix agents is a very useful method to automate your host creation. But what if we want to be even more upfront with our environment and automate further? That's when we use a Zabbix feature called active agent autoregistration.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need a new Linux host. We will call this host lar-book-lnx-agent-auto. Make sure to install the Zabbix agent 2 to this host. Besides this new host, we'll also need our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by logging in to our new lar-book-lnx-agent-auto host and change the following file:
    vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.conf
  2. We will then edit the following line in the file. Make sure to enter your Zabbix server IP on this line:
    ServerActive=10.16.16.152
  3. We can also change the following line in the file if we want to set our hostname in the file manually:
    Hostname=lar-book—lnx-agent-auto
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