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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)

Discovering JMX objects

In Chapter 3, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring, we went over setting up JMX monitoring in the recipe titled Setting up JMX monitoring. What we didn't cover yet though was discovering JMX objects.

In this recipe, we will go over how to set up JMX objects with LLD, and after you've finished this recipe, you'll know just how to set it up.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the JMX host that you set up for the Setting up JMX monitoring recipe in Chapter 3, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring. Make sure to finish that recipe before working on this one.

We will also need our Zabbix server with our Zabbix JMX host titled lar-book-jmx.

How to do it…

  1. Let's start this recipe off by logging in to our Zabbix frontend and navigating to Configuration | Templates.
  2. Create a new template by clicking on Create template in the top-right corner. Fill in the following fields:

Figure 7.39 – Configuration...