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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)

Chapter 11: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup

Like any good piece of software, Zabbix needs to be maintained in order to keep working over the years. A lot of users have been running their setups since the days of Zabbix 2.0. It's perfectly viable to do this if you bring the right knowledge of Zabbix to the equation.

In this chapter, I am going to show you how to do some of the most important parts of Zabbix maintenance to make sure you can keep your setup available and running smoothly. We are going to cover creating maintenance periods, how to make backups, how to upgrade Zabbix and various Zabbix components, and how to do some performance maintenance.

We'll cover these in the following recipes:

  • Setting Zabbix maintenance periods
  • Backing up your Zabbix setup
  • Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 7.2 or higher
  • Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5
  • Upgrading your Zabbix setup
  • Maintaining...