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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups
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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)

Concerns and further reading

At this time, encryption is a very new feature in Zabbix. While it has been developed and tested extremely carefully and pedantically, it's likely to receive further improvements. Make sure to read through the official documentation on encryption for more details and in case changes are made. Right now, let's touch on basic concerns and features that're missing.

So far in this chapter, we've covered Zabbix server, agents, zabbix_get, and zabbix_senderwhat about Zabbix proxies? Zabbix proxies fully support encryption. Configuration on the proxy side is very similar to agent configuration, and configuration on the frontend side is done in a similar way to agent encryption configuration too. Keep in mind that all involved components must be compiled with TLS support—any proxies you have might have to be recompiled. When...