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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)

Setting up improved business service monitoring

In Zabbix 6, business service monitoring has had an entire overhaul. If you've set it up in older versions, it might be wise to spend some time rediscovering the basics using this recipe. If you are entirely new to business service monitoring, do not worry as we will go through setting it up step by step in this recipe.

Getting ready

We will need our Zabbix server and access to its frontend. I'll be using my lar-book-centos host with the configuration we have done so far. We will also need a monitored host, for which I will use the Zabbix server itself.

How to do it…

I'll be using the Zabbix frontend as an example to set up business service monitoring, for which we will create a new host called lar-book-zabbix-frontend with some items and triggers.

Setting up the items and triggers

If you have followed the previous recipes, by now you should have a good understanding of setting up items and triggers...