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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)

Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.6

For our Zabbix 6 installation, we are going to need MariaDB 10.5 or a newer supported version, so, it is a good idea to keep your database version up to date. MariaDB regularly makes improvements to how MySQL handles certain aspects of performance.

This recipe details how to upgrade MariaDB to the latest stable version, which is MariaDB 10.6 at the time of writing.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our server which we called lar-book-zbx5. At this point, the server is running a RHEL8-based distribution.

Another option is that you have a server running a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 10, or a newer version of those Linux distributions. We will be upgrading the MariaDB instance on this server to version 10.6.

If you've followed the Optionally upgrading the Zabbix backend from PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.4 recipe, your server will now be running PHP version 7.4. If not, it...