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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups
Book Image

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups

Overview of this book

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring is the perfect starting point for monitoring the performance of your network devices and applications with Zabbix. Even if you’ve never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly. You’ll learn to monitor more sophisticated operations with ease and soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Starting with the installation, you will discover the new features in Zabbix 4.0. You will then get to grips with native Zabbix agents and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. This book 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 will understand how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book also helps you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. By the end of this book, you will have learned more advanced techniques to fine-tune your system and make sure it is in a healthy state.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)

Deciding on the service tree

Before configuring things, it's useful to think through the setup, and doubly so with IT services. A large service tree might look impressive, but it might not represent the actual functionality well and might even obscure the real system state.

Disk space being low is important, but it doesn't actually bring the system down; it doesn't affect the SLA. The best approach likely would be to only include specific checks that identify a service being available or operating in an acceptable manner; for example, the SLA might require some performance level to be maintained. Unless we want to have a large, complicated IT service tree, we should identify key factors in delivering the service and monitor those.

What are the key factors? If the service is simple enough and can be tested easily, we could have a direct test. Maybe the SLA requires...