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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)

Working with active Zabbix proxies

We now know how to install and add proxies. Let's set up our active proxy, like we did with the passive proxy in the previous recipe, and see how it works.

Getting ready

You will need the lar-book-proxy-active host for this recipe, ready and installed with Zabbix proxy. We will also be using our Zabbix server in this recipe.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by logging in to our Zabbix frontend and navigating to Administration | Proxies:

    Figure 7.6 – Administration | proxies page, no active proxies

  2. Our Proxies page is where we do all configuration that's proxy-related.
  3. Let's add a new proxy by clicking the blue Create proxy button in the top-right corner.
  4. This will take us to the Create proxy page, where we will fill out the following information:

    Figure 7.7 – Administration | proxies, Create proxy page, lar-book-proxy-active

  5. Before clicking the blue Add button, let's take a look...