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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)

Creating template items

Let's get started with finally creating some real template items because, in the end, items are what it is all about in Zabbix. Without items, we don't have data, and without data, we do not have anything to work with in our monitoring system.

Getting ready

Now, moving along, we are going to need our Zabbix server and a host that we can monitor with SNMP. In Chapter 3, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring, we monitored a host with SNMP, so we can use this host again. We'll also use the Zabbix template from the previous recipes.

How to do it…

  1. First of all, let's log in to our Zabbix server command-line interface (CLI) and enter snmpwalk, with the following command:
    snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u snmpv3user -a SHA -A "my_authpass" -x AES -X "my_privpass" 10.16.16.153 .1

Make sure to change the IP address 10.16.16.153 to your own correct value. We will receive an answer such as this:

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