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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)

Setting Zabbix maintenance periods

When we are working on our Zabbix server or on other hosts, it's super useful to set up maintenance periods in the Zabbix frontend. With maintenance periods we can make sure that our Zabbix users don't get alerts going off because of our maintenance. Let's see how we can schedule maintenance periods in this recipe.

Getting ready

All we are going to need in this recipe is our Zabbix server, for which I'll use lar-book-centos. The server will need at least some hosts and host groups to create maintenance periods on. Furthermore, we'll need to know how to navigate the Zabbix frontend.

How to do it…

  1. Let's get started with this recipe by logging in to our frontend and navigating to Configuration | Maintenance.
  2. We are going to click on the blue Create maintenance period button in the top-right corner.
  3. This will bring us to the next page, where we can set up our maintenance period. On the first...