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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)

Setting up advanced triggers

Triggers in Zabbix keep getting more advanced and it might be hard to keep up. For people working with Zabbix 5.2 or older and upgrading to Zabbix 6, not only is there a new Zabbix trigger syntax but there's also a whole new array of functions.

Let's dive into setting up some more advanced triggers in Zabbix 6.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our Zabbix server ready and we'll need one host that is monitored by a Zabbix agent with the Zabbix agent template. We'll use the items on this host to create triggers. Let's use the lar-book-agent_passive host from the previous chapter.

If you don't have this host from the previous chapters, simply hook up a new host with the default passive Linux monitoring template called Linux by Zabbix agent.

We'll also be touching on some more advanced topics that are discussed later in the book. If you don't know how to use Low-Level Discovery (LLD) for example...