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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 different kinds of macros

Now, when we are working with templates, a very efficient way to make your templates more useful is through the use of macros. In this recipe, we'll discover how to use macros to do this.

Getting ready

We are going to need our Zabbix server and our SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes. We'll also need our Zabbix template, as created in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

Now, let's start with creating some macros on a template level. We'll be making two different types of macros.

Defining a user macro

  1. Now, let's start this recipe off by defining a user macro on our template. Navigate to Configuration | Templates and click our Template OS Linux by SNMPvX template.
  2. Here, we will go to Macros and fill in the following fields:

    Figure 4.17 – Template-level macros

  3. Click on Update, and let's move to Trigger to define a new trigger:

    Figure 4.18 – Trigger creation window...