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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)

Enabling and disabling a host from Zabbix maps

We've noticed that it is not possible to enable and disable hosts as a Zabbix User. For some companies, this may be a requirement, so I've created an extension for it. In this recipe, I will show you just how to work with this Python script and execute it from a map.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all we are going to need is our Zabbix server, some knowledge of Python, and some knowledge of the Zabbix API.

How to do it

  1. If you haven't already created an API user, then note that we are going to need a new user for API calls, but to create this, we need a user group first. Click the blue Create user group button.
  2. Now let's create the following User group:

    Figure 9.31 – Zabbix Administration | Users group, Create user group page, API users for maps

  3. Now, let's click on Permissions and fill out some information here too.
  4. Click on the white Select button and select all the user groups...