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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)

Using the Zabbix API for extending functionality

An API is your gateway to getting started with extending the functionality of any piece of software. Luckily, Zabbix offers a solid working API that we can use to extend our functionality with ease.

In this recipe, we'll explore the use of the Zabbix API to do some tasks, creating a good basis to start working with the Zabbix API in your actual production environments.

Getting ready

We are going to need a Zabbix server with some hosts. I'll be using our host lar-book-centos from the previous chapters, but feel free to use any Zabbix server. I will also use another Linux host to do the API calls from, and this can be any Linux host.

We will need to install Python 3 on the Linux host, though, as we'll be using this to create our API calls.

How to do it

  1. First things first, let's log in to our Zabbix frontend. Navigate to Administration | User groups.
  2. We are then going to need a new user for...