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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel

Overview of this book

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You'll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network. You'll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you'll 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 Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Building a jumphost using the Zabbix API and Python

A lot of organizations have a jumphost (sometimes referred to as a bastion host) 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's GitHub account, drop him a follow, and star his repository if you think this is a cool...