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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

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)

Using the Zabbix frontend

If this is your first time using Zabbix, congratulations on getting to the UI. If this is your first time using Zabbix 5.0, surprise, this is the new layout! We'll be going over some of the different elements that we can find in the Zabbix frontend so that during this book, you'll feel confident in finding everything you need.

Getting ready

To get started with the Zabbix UI, all we need to do is log in to the frontend. You will be served with the following page at the IP on which your server is running the Zabbix frontend:

Figure 1.9 – The Zabbix login screen

Make sure you log in to the Zabbix frontend with the default credentials:

Username: Admin
Password: zabbix

Tip

Just like in Linux, Zabbix is case-sensitive in most places. When entering your username, make sure to include the right cases; otherwise, you won't be able to log in!

How to do it…

After you log in, you'll be served...