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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)

Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates

It's time to start with one of the most important tasks in Zabbix: building structured templates. A good Zabbix setup relies heavily on templating, and there is a huge difference between a good and a bad template. So, if you're new to Zabbix or you haven't started building your own templates yet, pay close attention to this chapter.

In this chapter, we will go over how to set up your templates, and how to fill them with the right items and triggers. Also important is the use of macros and Low-Level Discovery (LLD). After following these recipes, you will be more than ready to build solid Zabbix templates with the right format, and even LLD.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

  • Creating your Zabbix template
  • Setting up template applications
  • Creating template items
  • Creating template triggers
  • Setting up different kinds of macros
  • Using LLD on templates
  • Nesting Zabbix...