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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 graphs for accessing visual data

Graphs in Zabbix are a powerful tool, to show what's going on with your collected data. You might have already found some graphs by using the Latest data page, but we can also create our own predefined graphs. In this recipe, we will go over doing just that.

Getting ready

Make sure to get your Zabbix server ready, along with a Linux host that we can monitor with SNMP. If you have followed along with the recipes in Chapter 4, Building Your Own Structured Templates, you should already have your own personal created template. Alternatively, download the template here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Zabbix-5-Network-Monitoring-Cookbook

If you are using the downloaded templates, download and import Template OS Linux uptime by SNMPvX first, and then Template OS Linux by SNMPvX. Importing a template can be done at Configuration | Templates by pressing the blue Import button in the top-right corner.

Make sure to put the template...