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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, Rihards Olups
Book Image

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)

Summary

In this chapter, we first looked at configuring and sharing the new Zabbix dashboards and then learned to combine graphs, maps, and other data on a single page by using screens. Screens are able to hold a lot of different elements, including the statistics of currently-active triggers, and even history and any custom page, by using the URL element. The URL element also allows us to create a screen that contains graphs showing different time periods. The screens are available on both the global and template levels.

Especially useful for unattended displays, slideshows allow us to cycle through screens. We can set the default delay and override it for individual screens. To include a single map or graph in a slideshow, we still have to create a screen containing that map or graph.

In the next chapter, we will try to gather data using more advanced methods. We'll look...