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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 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API

Zabbix offers a lot of functionality out of the box. But where Zabbix really shines is customization, not only through the default frontend but especially with scripts and the Zabbix API.

In this chapter, I will go over the basics of using the Zabbix API. We will then see how a Python script can utilize the API to build something cool, such as a jumphost. After that, we'll use some scripts written by Brian van Baekel to schedule maintenance periods as a Zabbix user and to enable and disable hosts with limited permissions from a Zabbix map.

After following these recipes, you'll be more than ready to tackle the Zabbix API and you'll know how to use scripts to extend Zabbix functionality. This chapter will expand your possibilities with Zabbix to almost endless proportions and you'll be ready to become a professional Zabbix user yourself.

In this chapter, we will cover the following...