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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)

Using multiple templates

There are two monitored hosts now. They both have some services monitored and linked to the same template. Suddenly, the situation changes: one of the hosts gets a new function and the email server is removed. Our options from the Zabbix viewpoint include simply disabling email-related items for that host, or creating a separate template for it and removing email-server-related entities from the main template, instead leaving them on the other server. There's a better approach, though: splitting email-server-related entities into a separate template.

Navigate to Configuration | Templates, then click on the Create template button. Enter C_Template_Email in the Template name field, select Custom templates in the Groups box if it's not already selected, then click on Add:

Now, let's populate this template:

  1. Select Custom templates in the Group...