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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel
Book Image

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)

Creating maintenance periods as a Zabbix user

It used to not be possible to schedule maintenance periods as a Zabbix user, which is why we created these scripts. In Zabbix 6, we can actually make it possible by using user roles, but these scripts are still relevant to provide quick access to maintenance creation. For some companies, this may be very useful, to limit the number of navigation actions required to do things using the frontend. In this recipe, I will show you just how to work with this Python script.

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. First, let's log in to our Zabbix server CLI and create a new directory:
    mkdir /etc/zabbix/frontendscripts
  2. Change to the new directory:
    cd /etc/zabbix/frontendscripts
  3. Now download the Public script from the Opensource ICT Solutions GitHub:
    wget https://github.com/OpensourceICTSolutions/zabbix...