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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)

Upgrading your Zabbix setup

As we've seen throughout the book already, Zabbix 6 offers a great deal of cool new features. Zabbix 6.0 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, so just like 4.0 and 5.0, you will receive long-term support for it. Let's see how we can upgrade a Zabbix server from version 5.0 to version 6.0.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our server called lar-book-zbx5. At this point, your server will be running either a RHEL8-based Linux distribution or a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 10, or newer versions of those distributions.

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's a good option to follow that recipe first.

If you've followed the Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5 recipe, it will now be running MariaDB version 10.5. If not, it's wise to follow...