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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 Discovery with Zabbix proxies

In Chapter 6, Using discovery for Automatic Creation, we talked about Zabbix and discovery. It is a very good idea to edit your discovery rules if you followed along with that chapter. Let's see how this would work in this recipe.

Getting ready

You'll need to have finished Chapter 6, Using discovery for Automatic Creation, or have some discovery rules and active agent autoregistration setup.

I'll be using lar-book-lnx-agent-auto, lar-book-disc-lnx, and lar-book-disc-win hosts in this example. We will also need our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

Let's start with editing our discovery rule and then move on to editing our active agent to autoregister to the proxy.

Discovery rules

Starting with Zabbix discovery rules, let's look at how to make sure we do this from the Zabbix proxy:

  1. Log in to the CLI of lar-book-disc-lnx and edit the /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent2.conf file. Edit the following lines...