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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)

Technical requirements

We are going to need several important servers for these recipes. First of all, we are going to need a running Zabbix 5 server for which to set up maintenance periods and do performance tuning.

We will need one of the following servers:

  • A CentOS 7 server running Zabbix server 4.0 with PHP 5.4 and MariaDB 5.5
  • An Ubuntu 16.04 server running Zabbix server 4.0 with PHP 7.0 and MariaDB 10.0

I will call this server lar-book-zbx4, which you can run with a distribution of your choice.

If you do not have any prior experience with Zabbix, this chapter may prove a good challenge, as we are going to go in depth into the more advanced Zabbix processes.