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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)

Upgrading your Zabbix setup

As we've seen throughout the book already, Zabbix 5 offers a great deal of cool new features. Zabbix 5.0 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, so just like 3.0 and 4.0, you will receive long-term support for it. Let's see how we can upgrade a Zabbix server from version 4.0 to version 5.0.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our server called lar-book-zbx4. At this point, your server installed with either CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 16.04 will be running Zabbix server 4.0.

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.

If you've followed the Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5 recipe, it will now be running MariaDB version 10.5. If not, it's wise to follow that recipe first.

Also, make sure to take backups of your system and...