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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)

Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5

For a Zabbix 5 installation we are going to need MariaDB 10.0.37 or later, so, it is a good idea to keep your database version up to date. MariaDB regularly makes improvements to how MySQL handles certain aspects of performance.

In this recipe, I will show you how to upgrade MariaDB to the now-latest version 10.5.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our server called lar-book-zbx4. At this point, the server installed with CentOS 7 will be running Zabbix server 4.0 with MariaDB version 5.5.

Another option is that you have a server running Ubuntu 16.04, which already includes MariaDB version 10.0 by default. We will be upgrading the MariaDB instance on this server to version 10.5.

If you've followed the Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 7.2 or higher recipe, your server will now be running PHP version 7.2. If not, it's wise to follow that recipe first.

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