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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)

Using LLD on templates

Now, let's get started on my favorite part of template creation: LLD. I think this is one of the most powerful and most used parts of Zabbix.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, you will need your Zabbix server, the SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes, and our template from the previous recipe.

A working knowledge of the SNMP tree structure is also recommended. So, make sure to read the Working with SNMP monitoring recipe in Chapter 2, Setting up Zabbix Monitoring, thoroughly.

How to do it…

  1. Let's get started by navigating to Configuration | Templates and selecting our Template OS Linux by SNMPvX template.
  2. Now, go to Discovery rules, and in the top-right corner, click Create discovery rule. This will lead you to the LLD creation page:

    Figure 4.25 – Zabbix LLD creation page, empty

    Now, we will be making a discovery rule to discover our interfaces on the Linux host. The Linux SNMP tree for interfaces...