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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)

Setting up Zabbix Agent discovery

A lot of Zabbix administrators use Zabbix Agent extensively and thus spend a lot of time creating Zabbix Agent hosts by hand. They do this simply because they have no knowledge of Zabbix Agent discovery or have had no time to set it up yet. No longer will this be the case—in this recipe, we will learn just how easy it is to set up Zabbix Agent discovery, and neither knowledge nor time will be an issue anymore.

Getting ready

Besides our Zabbix server, I mentioned in this chapter's introduction that we will need two clean hosts with Zabbix Agent installed: one Windows host and one Linux host. If you don't know how to install Zabbix Agent, check out Chapter 2, Setting up Zabbix Monitoring, or see the Zabbix documentation at https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/concepts/agent2.

Don't forget to install Zabbix Agent on both servers! Let's give the servers the following hostnames:

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