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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you’ll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring

Zabbix is built to be flexible and should be able to monitor just about anything you could ever require. In this chapter, we will learn more about working with Zabbix to build a lot of different options for monitoring. We'll go over them recipe by recipe, so you'll end up with a solid understanding of how they work. We'll cover the following recipes on the different monitoring types:

  • Setting up Zabbix agent monitoring
  • Working with SNMP monitoring
  • Creating Zabbix simple checks and Zabbix trapper
  • Working with calculated and dependent items
  • Creating external checks
  • Setting up JMX monitoring
  • Setting up database monitoring
  • Setting up HTTP agent monitoring
  • Using Zabbix preprocessing to alter item values