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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 maps to keep an eye on infrastructure

Maps in Zabbix are a great way to get an overview of infrastructure—for instance, they're amazing for following traffic flows or seeing where something is going off in your environment. They're not only super-useful for network overviews but also for server management overviews, and even for a lot of cool customization.

Getting ready

We will need our Zabbix server, our SNMP-monitored host, and the templates from the previous recipe.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start this recipe off by navigating to Configuration | Template and selecting our Linux by SNMP template.
  2. Go to Discovery rules and then Item prototypes. Create the following item prototype by filling in the fields in the Item prototype creation page:

Figure 6.11 – Item prototype creation page

  1. We'll also need to go to Tags to add a new tag, like the one in the following screenshot:
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