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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)

Securing your Zabbix MySQL database

Another great added feature for the Zabbix server is the ability to encrypt data between the database and Zabbix components. This is particularly useful when you are running a split database and the Zabbix server over the network. A Man in the Middle (MITM) or other attacks can be executed on the network to gain access to your monitoring data.

In this recipe, we'll set up MySQL encryption between Zabbix components and the database to add another layer of security.

Getting ready

We are going to need a Zabbix setup that uses an external database. I'll be using the Linux lar-book-secure-db and lar-book-secure-zbx hosts.

The new server called lar-book-secure-zbx will be used to connect externally to the lar-book-secure-db database server. The database servers won't run our Zabbix server; this process will run on lar-book-secure-zbx.

Make sure that MariaDB is already installed on the lar-book-secure-db host and that you are...