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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)

Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation

This chapter is going to be all about making sure that you as a Zabbix Administrator are doing as little work as possible on the host and item creation part. We are going to learn how to perform (or perfect, maybe) automatic host creation. Check out the recipes featured here to see just what we are going to discover.

In this chapter, we will first learn how to set up Zabbix discovery with Zabbix agent and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). We will then set up active agent autoregistration. Later, we will also cover the automatic creation of Windows performance counters and Java Managements Extension (JMX) items.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up Zabbix Agent discovery
  • Setting up Zabbix SNMP discovery
  • Working with Active agent autoregistration
  • Using the new Windows performance counter discovery
  • Discovering JMX objects