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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)

Viewing reports

Finally, we're ready to see the results of all of the work done previously. Navigate to Monitoring | Services and you should see a report like this:

It shows the current state of each service, the calculated SLA value, and whether it meets the projected value. In this example, out of three services, only one has met the SLA level—the Warehouse analytics service. You're most likely seeing a different result.

The bar doesn't actually represent 100%—if you compare the value with how much of the bar is colored red, it doesn't seem to match. Move the mouse cursor over any of the bars to see why:

This bar only displays the last 20%—for the SLA monitoring, we don't expect anything much below 80% available and showing a smaller part of a full bar allows us to see the impact more.

What we are looking at right now is the report...