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Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven
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Zabbix Cookbook

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven

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Zabbix Cookbook
Patrik Uytterhoeven | patrik uytterhoeven
Mar, 2015 | 260 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Zabbix Cookbook
Zabbix Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Zabbix Configuration
Zabbix Configuration
Introduction
Server installation and configuration
Agent installation and configuration
Frontend installation and configuration
Installing Zabbix from source
Installing the server in a distributed setup
2
Getting Around in Zabbix
Getting Around in Zabbix
Introduction
Exploring the frontend
Zabbix definitions
Acknowledging triggers
Zabbix architecture
Getting an overview of the latest data
3
Groups, Users, and Permissions
Groups, Users, and Permissions
Introduction
Creating hosts
Creating host groups
Creating users
Creating user groups
General administration
Authenticating users
4
Monitoring with Zabbix
Monitoring with Zabbix
Introduction
Active agents
Passive agents
Extending agents
SNMP checks
Internal checks
Zabbix trapper
IPMI checks
JMX checks
Aggregate checks
External checks
Database monitoring
Checks with SSH
Checks with Telnet
Calculated checks
Building web scenarios
Monitoring web scenarios
Some advanced monitoring tricks
Autoinventory
5
Testing with Triggers in Zabbix
Testing with Triggers in Zabbix
Introduction
Creating triggers
Testing log files
Trigger constructor
More advanced triggers
Testing our trigger expressions
6
Working with Templates
Working with Templates
Introduction
Creating templates
Importing and exporting templates
Linking templates
Nesting templates
Macros in templates
7
Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix
Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix
Introduction
Creating graphs
Creating screens
Creating slideshows
Building maps in Zabbix
Creating reports
Generating SLA reports
8
Monitoring VMware and Proxies
Monitoring VMware and Proxies
Introduction
Configuring Zabbix for VMware
Monitoring VMware
Installing a proxy
Setting up an active proxy
Setting up a passive proxy
Monitoring hosts through a proxy
Monitoring the proxy
9
Autodiscovery
Autodiscovery
Introduction
Configuring network discovery
Automation after discovery
Active agent autoregistration
Low-level discovery
10
Zabbix Maintenance and API
Zabbix Maintenance and API
Introduction
Maintenance periods
Monitoring Zabbix
Backups
Avoiding performance issues
Zabbix API
API by example
Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix
Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix
Introduction
Some guidelines to upgrade Zabbix
Upgrading your Zabbix installation
Troubleshooting in Zabbix
Zabbix best practices
What to expect in Zabbix 3.0
Zabbix community
Index
Index

IPMI checks

We have already seen a few ways to monitor our infrastructure with Zabbix. One of the other supported methods of Zabbix is IPMI monitoring. If you still have no clue what we are talking about then maybe ILO or DRAC will tell you more. DRAC is from Dell and stands for Dell Remote Access Controller and ILO is from HP and stands for Integrated Lights-out. Most of these interfaces come in servers as extra cards, and make it possible for us to monitor our hardware directly without the need of an operating system. The server doesn't even need to be turned on to monitor the hardware.

Getting ready

For this topic, you need as usual a properly configured Zabbix server. Make sure you have compiled the server with support included for OpenIPMI. We also need some IPMI capable device, probably a server with a remote management card.

How to do it …

  1. First thing we need to do is go to our server and create a user for Zabbix in our IPMI device. It's wise to create on all servers, an extra user just...

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