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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 triggers

Now, creating templated triggers works in about the same way as creating templated items or normal triggers. Let's go over the process, to see how we do it and how to keep it structured.

Getting ready

We will need the Zabbix server and the host from the previous recipe for this recipe.

How to do it…

We have configured one item on our template so far, so let's create a trigger for this item.

  1. Navigate to Configuration | Templates in our Zabbix frontend and select our Custom Linux by SNMP template.
  2. Now, click Triggers and then Create Trigger in the top-right corner. This will take us to the next page, where we will enter the following information:

Figure 5.15 – Create trigger window for the SNMP template

  1. As discussed in the previous chapter, for triggers there's also the scope tag that we need to add:

Figure 5.16 – Create trigger window for...