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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)

Technical requirements

We are going to need some new servers for these recipes. One Linux server needs to run Zabbix server 6 with MySQL (MariaDB) set up; we'll call this host lar-book-mysql- mgmt. We will also need a Linux server running Zabbix server 6 with PostgreSQL, which we'll call lar-book-postgresql-mgmt.

We'll also need two servers for creating a secure Zabbix database setup. One server will be running the MySQL (MariaDB) database; let's call this server lar-book-secure-db. Then, connecting externally to a Zabbix database, we'll have our Zabbix server, which we'll call lar-book-secure-zbx.

The code files can also be accessed from the GitHub repository here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Zabbix-6-IT-Infrastructure-Monitoring-Cookbook/tree/main/chapter12