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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)

Advanced user authentication with SAML

New to Zabbix 5.0 is SAML authentication, a widely used form of authentication in the IT world. We'll be using this as a form of managing passwords for our Zabbix users. Please note that if you've worked with Zabbix before and you've configured LDAP, SAML, like LDAP, allows user authentication with passwords. You still have to create users with their permissions.

Getting ready

To get started with SAML authentication, we will need our configured Zabbix server from the previous recipe. It's important that we have all the configured users from the previous recipe. We will also need something to authenticate with SAML. We will be using Azure Active Directory (AD) SAML.

Make sure to set up users in your (Azure) AD before continuing with this recipe. You can use your existing AD users for authentication, so you can use this recipe with your existing AD setup.

We will be using the s_network user as an example:

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