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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)

Nesting Zabbix templates

Now, using a simple template per device or group of devices is one way to create Zabbix templates, but it isn't the only way. We can also use nested templates to break pieces of them apart and put them back together in the highest template in the nest.

In this recipe, we'll go over how to configure this and why.

Getting ready

We are going to need our Zabbix server, our SNMP-monitored host, and the template we created in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by navigating to our Configuration | Templates page and clicking the Create template button in the top-right corner.
  2. We are going to create a new template for monitoring the uptime of our SNMP host. Input the following information:

Figure 5.43 – New template creation page for uptime with SNMP

  1. Next, we are going to click the Add button and click our Custom Linux uptime by SNMP template name. This will take us to...