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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)

Using the new Windows performance counter discovery

In Zabbix 6, it is possible to discover Windows performance counters. In this recipe, we will go over the process of discovering Windows performance counters to use in our environments.

Discovering Windows performance counters might seem to be a little tricky at first, as it uses both Windows- and Zabbix-specific concepts. But once we finish this recipe you'll know exactly how to set it up.

Getting ready

In this chapter, we added the lar-book-disc-win host to our setup, which is the host used in our Zabbix agent discovery process. We can reuse this host to discover Windows performance counters easily.

Of course, we'll also need our Zabbix server.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start by navigating to Configuration | Templates and creating a new template by clicking Create template in the top-right corner.
  2. Create the following template:

Figure 7.27 – Configuration...