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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)

Setting up template-level tags

Our next step in setting up our Zabbix template is setting up template-level tags. Tags on a template level are used to give every single event (problem) created on a host by this template a tag. The tag is then used to filter events in things like dashboards, actions, and the Monitoring | Problems view.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, you will need a Zabbix server and a template on that server, preferably our template created in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

Creating template-level tags is a way to make sure that only events created by a certain template will get a configured tag. To get started, the first thing you will need to do is navigate to the template and follow these steps:

  1. Go to Configuration | Templates and click on our template, called Custom Linux by SNMP.
  2. Here, you will click the Tags tab at the top of the form and you'll be taken to this tab:

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