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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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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)

Monitoring hosts with Zabbix proxy

We have our active and passive Zabbix proxies ready to use, so it's now time to add some hosts to them. Setting up the Zabbix frontend to monitor hosts with Zabbix proxies works in about the same way as monitoring directly from the Zabbix server. The backend and design change completely though, which I'll explain in the How it works… section of this recipe.

Getting ready

Make sure you have your lar-book-proxy-passive passive proxy and your lar-book-proxy-active active proxy ready by following all of the previous recipes in this chapter.

You will also need your Zabbix server and at least two hosts to monitor. We will be using lar-book-agent_snmp and lar-book-agent in the example, but any host with an active and passive Zabbix agent will work.

How to do it…

We'll configure a host on both our active and our passive proxies to show you what the difference is between these two. Let's start with the passive...