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Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

By : Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups
Book Image

Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

By: Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups

Overview of this book

This book is a perfect starting point for monitoring with Zabbix. Even if you have never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly, before guiding you into more sophisticated operations with ease. You'll soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Beginning with installation, you'll learn the basics of data collection before diving deeper to get to grips with native Zabbix agents and SNMP devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. Beyond this, Zabbix Network Monitoring also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting - so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies. Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you'll find out how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book is also on hand to help you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. Network monitoring doesn't have to be a chore - learn the tricks of the Zabbix trade and make sure you're network is performing for everyone who depends upon it.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
Zabbix Network Monitoring Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Detecting Problems with Triggers
7
Acting upon Monitored Conditions
Index

Monitoring Windows services


There's yet another item category that is Windows-specific: a dedicated key for Windows service state monitoring. Let's try to monitor a service now. First we have to figure out how to refer to this service. For that, open the services list and then open up the details of a service—let's choose DNS Client:

Look at the top of this tab. Service name is the name we will have to use, and we can see that it differs noticeably from the display name—instead of using DNS Client, the name is Dnscache. Let's create the item now. Navigate to Configuration | Hosts, click on Items next to the Windows host, then click on Create item. Enter these values:

  • Name: DNS client service state

  • Key: service.info[Dnscache]

Tip

Service names are case insensitive.

The key used here, service.info, is new in Zabbix 3.0. Older versions of Zabbix used service_state key. This key is deprecated but still supported, and you are likely to see it in older Zabbix installations and templates. The service...