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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)

Creating your Zabbix template

In this recipe, we will start with the basics of creating a Zabbix template. We will go over the structure of Zabbix templating and why we need to pay attention to certain aspects of templating.

Getting ready

All you will need in this recipe is your Zabbix server.

How to do it…

Now, let's get started with building our structured Zabbix template:

  1. Open your Zabbix frontend and navigate to Configuration | Templates.
  2. On this page, click the Create template button in the top-right corner. This will lead you to the following page:

Figure 5.1 – The create template page, empty

At this point, we are going to need to name our template and assign a group to it. We will be creating an SNMP template to monitor a Linux host. I'll be using SNMP in the example to show how the templates are structured.

Important Note

Use SNMP to monitor network equipment, custom equipment supporting SNMP...