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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)

Value mapping

This time, we are interested in only one value, the one that decides how the value is displayed to us. Mark the checkbox next to the Show value entry to see the available options.

It looks like somebody has already defined entries here, but let's find out what it actually means before making a decision. Click on the Show value mappings link to the right on the same line:

Looking at the list, we can see various names, each of them having a list of mapped references. Look at the Name column, where the predefined entries have hints about what they are good for. You can see UPS-related mappings, generic status/state, SNMP, and Windows service-related mappings. The Value map column shows the exact mappings that are assigned to each entry. But what exactly are they? Looking at the entries, you can see things such as 0 => Down or 1 => Up. Data arriving for an...