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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 different kinds of macros

Now, when we are working with templates, a very efficient way to make your templates more useful is through the use of macros. In this recipe, we'll discover how to use macros to do this.

Getting ready

We are going to need our Zabbix server and our SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes. We'll also need our Zabbix template, as created in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

Now, let's start with creating some macros on a template level. We'll be making two different types of macros.

Defining a user macro

  1. Now, let's start this recipe off by defining a user macro on our template. Navigate to Configuration | Templates and click our Custom Linux by SNMP template.
  2. Here, we will go to Macros and fill in the following fields:

Figure 5.18 – Template-level macros

  1. Click on Update, and let's move to Trigger to define a new trigger:
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