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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups
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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups

Overview of this book

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring is the perfect starting point for monitoring the performance of your network devices and applications with Zabbix. Even if you’ve never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly. You’ll learn to monitor more sophisticated operations with ease and soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face. Starting with the installation, you will discover the new features in Zabbix 4.0. You will then get to grips with native Zabbix agents and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. This book 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 will understand how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book also helps you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face. By the end of this book, you will have learned more advanced techniques to fine-tune your system and make sure it is in a healthy state.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)

Monitoring VMware

There are a lot of virtualization solutions available today. Their target markets and popularity differ, but for enterprise shops that can afford it, VMware solutions are quite widespread. Zabbix offers built-in support for monitoring VMware. This support includes the following:

  • Monitoring vSphere and/or vCenter
  • Automatically discovering all hypervisors
  • Automatically discovering all virtual machines

Monitoring VMware doesn't involve any custom layers; Zabbix accesses the VMware API directly, and the monitoring of such an environment is very easy to set up.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

  • Preparing for VMware monitoring
  • Automatic discovery
  • Available metrics
  • The underlying operation
  • VMware LLD configuration