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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)

Chapter 8: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies

You can't preach about Zabbix without actually preaching about the use of Zabbix proxies—a nice addition at first, but a no-brainer by now. Anyone that's expecting to set up a Zabbix environment of a medium/larger size will need proxies. The main reason to use proxies is scalability, as Zabbix proxies offload the data collection and preprocessing load from the Zabbix server. This way we can scale up our Zabbix environment further and with greater ease.

In this chapter, we will first learn how to set up a Zabbix proxy. We will then learn how to work with passive and active Zabbix proxies, and also how to monitor hosts with either form of the Zabbix proxy. We will also cover some Zabbix network discovery using the proxies, and we'll learn how to monitor Zabbix proxies to keep them healthy. After these recipes, you'll have no more excuses for not setting up the proxies, as we'll cover most of the possible forms of...