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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 Microsoft Teams alerting with Zabbix

At the time of writing this book, I'm living in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 crisis. A lot of IT companies have been requested to make their employees work from home. Due to this, there's been a rise in the use of Microsoft Teams and applications like it. Suddenly, a lot of companies have started using Microsoft Teams and others to make working from home and collaboration easier.

Let's learn how we can make working with Microsoft Teams even better by integrating our Zabbix alerting into it.

Getting ready

We will need our Zabbix server to be able to create some problems for us. For this, you can use lar-book-centos from our previous chapters or any Zabbix server that you prefer.

We will also need general Microsoft Teams knowledge and, of course, Microsoft Teams itself set up and ready to go.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to complete this recipe:

  1. Let's start by opening our Microsoft...