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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)

Who did that?

Now who did that? This is a question occasionally heard in many places, IT workplaces included. Weird configuration changes and unsolicited reboots; accountability and a trace of actions help a lot to determine whether the questioner was the one who made the change and then forgot about it. For Zabbix configuration changes, an internal audit log is available. Just like most functionality, it's conveniently accessible from the web frontend. During our configuration quest, we made quite a lot of changes; let's see what footprints we left. Navigate to Reports | Audit and set the filter time to a period that approximately matches the initial installation of this Zabbix instance. We're presented with a list of the things we did, although you can also only see logging in and out on the first page of the audit records:

And what if you set up Zabbix frontend...