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Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

By : Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups
Book Image

Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

By: Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups, Rihards Olups

Overview of this book

This book is a perfect starting point for monitoring with Zabbix. Even if you have never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly, before guiding you into more sophisticated operations with ease. You'll soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Beginning with installation, you'll learn the basics of data collection before diving deeper to get to grips with native Zabbix agents and SNMP devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. Beyond this, Zabbix Network Monitoring also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting - so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies. Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you'll find out how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book is also on hand to help you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. Network monitoring doesn't have to be a chore - learn the tricks of the Zabbix trade and make sure you're network is performing for everyone who depends upon it.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
Zabbix Network Monitoring Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Detecting Problems with Triggers
7
Acting upon Monitored Conditions
Index

Available metrics


With some groups and hosts automatically created, let's see what data they are collecting. Navigate to Monitoring | Latest data and select Hypervisors in the Host groups field. Then, click on Filter:

There will be more items for each hypervisor. Some of them might not have data yet, but a bit of patience should reveal all the details.

Tip

Datastore items might appear later—they are discovered by the datastore discovery LLD rule in Template Virt VMware Hypervisor with a default interval of 1 hour.

Now, filter for a hypervisor virtual machine group in the Host groups field, or by a single discovered virtual machine in the Hosts field:

Again, there should be more items, and some could still be missing values. They all should eventually get populated, though.

Tip

Disks, filesystems, and interface items might appear later—they are discovered by the disk device discovery, mounted filesystem discovery, and network device discovery LLD rules in the Template Virt VMware Guest template...