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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)

Creating your Zabbix template

In this recipe, we will start with the basics of creating a Zabbix template. We will go over the structure of Zabbix templating and why we need to pay attention to certain aspects of templating.

Getting ready

All you will need in this recipe is your Zabbix server.

How to do it…

Now, let's get started with building our structured Zabbix template.

  1. Open your Zabbix frontend and navigate to Configuration | Templates.
  2. At this page, click the Create template button in the top-right corner. This will lead you to the following page:

    Figure 4.1 – The create template page, empty

    At this point, we are going to need to name our template and assign a group to it. We will be creating an SNMP template to monitor a Linux host. I'll be using SNMP in the example to show how the templates are structured.

    Important note

    Use SNMP to monitor network equipment, custom equipment supporting SNMP, and more. SNMP is very versatile and...