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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)

Linking templates to hosts

Now we'd like to link this template to our very first host, A test host. First, let's compare item lists between the freshly-created template and that host:

  1. Open Configuration | Hosts in one browser window or tab and Configuration | Templates in another.
  2. In the first window, choose Linux servers in the Group drop-down, then click on Items next to A test host.
  1. In the other one, select Custom templates in the Group drop-down, then click on Items next to C_Template_Linux. Place the windows next to each other and compare the listings:

We can see that the template has three more items than the host. Looking at the lists on the left side of the screenshot and the right, we can see that items available on the template (right) but not on the host (left) are both SNMP-related items that we added later, experimental SNMP trap and snmptraps, the...