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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)

Working with SNMP monitoring

Now let's do something I enjoy most when working with Zabbix: build SNMP monitoring. My professional roots lie in network engineering, and I have worked a lot with SNMP monitoring to monitor all these different network devices.

Getting ready

To get started, we need the two Linux hosts we used in the previous recipes:

  • Our Zabbix server host
  • The host we used in the previous recipe to monitor via the Zabbix active agent

How to do it…

Monitoring via SNMP polling is easy and very powerful. We will start by configuring SNMPv3 on our monitored Linux host:

  1. Let's start by issuing the following commands to install SNMP on our host.

For RHEL-based systems:

dnf install net-snmp net-snmp-utils

For Ubuntu systems:

apt install snmp snmpd libsnmp-dev
  1. Now, let's create the new SNMPv3 user that we will use to monitor our host. Please note that we'll be using insecure passwords, but make...