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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)

Building a jumphost using the Zabbix API and Python

A lot of organizations have a jumphost to access servers, switches, and their other equipment from a host. A jumphost generally has all the firewall rules needed to access everything important. Now if we keep our monitoring up to date, we should have every single host in there as well.

My friend, ex-colleague, and fellow Zabbix geek, Yadvir Singh, had the amazing idea to create a Python script to export all Zabbix hosts with their IPs to the /etc/hosts file on another Linux host. Let's see how we can build a jumphost just like his.

Getting ready

We are going to need a new host for this recipe with Linux installed and ready. We'll call this host lar-book-jump. We will also need our Zabbix server, for which I'll use lar-book-centos.

Also, it is important to navigate to Yadvir on his GitHub account, drop him a follow, and star his repository if you too think this is a cool script: https://github.com/cheatas...