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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)

Setting up template applications

Our next step in setting up our Zabbix template is setting up template applications. Applications in Zabbix templates are used to keep our items structured under a group like identifier.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, you will need a Zabbix server and a template on that server, preferably our template created in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

Creating template applications is a way to easily sort items. To get started, the first thing you will need to do is navigate to the template and follow these steps:

  1. Go to Configuration | Templates and click on our template, called Template OS Linux by SNMPvX.
  2. Here, you will click the Applications option next to the template name and you'll be taken to this screen:

    Figure 4.5 – Zabbix Applications screen for the SNMP template

    Now, the first thing I always want to do is create an application for Zabbix raw items and for General.

  3. Start creating applications...