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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)

Setting up triggers

Triggers are important in Zabbix because they notify you as to what's going on with your data. We want to get a trigger when our data reaches a certain threshold.

So, let's get started with setting up some cool triggers. There are loads of different options for defining triggers, but after reading this recipe you should be able to set up some of the most prominent triggers. Let's take your trigger experience to the next level!

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our Zabbix server ready and we will need a Linux host. I will use the lar-book-agent_simple host from the previous chapter because we already have some items on that.

We'll also need one more host that is monitored by Zabbix agent with the Zabbix agent template. We'll use one of the items on this host to create a trigger. This will be the lar-book-agent_passive host from the previous chapter.

On this host, we will already have some triggers available, but...