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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)

Screens

The graphs and maps we are familiar with cannot be combined into a single page on their own—for that, we may use an entity called a screen.

Let's create one together:

  1. Navigate to Monitoring | Screens, and click on the Create screen button.
  2. Enter Local servers in the Name field and 2 in the Columns field. We will be able to add more later, if needed:
As with network maps, screens may also be created and shared by users.
  1. Click on Add, and then click on Constructor next to Local servers. We are presented with a fairly unimpressive view:

So, it's up to us to spice it up.

  1. Click on the left-hand Change link, and we have an editing form replacing the previous cell's contents. The default resource type is graph, and we created some graphs earlier.
  2. Click on Select next to the Graph field. In the upcoming window, make sure A test host is selected in...