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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

Specifying uptime and downtime


With SLA monitoring configured, we can happily proceed with making sure our systems run smoothly; we do some maintenance during a properly-scheduled maintenance period, only to discover that our SLA level has dropped. Was sure downtime during maintenance periods would not be counted against the SLA monitoring? Wrong. Zabbix host and host group-level maintenance does not affect SLA monitoring. If something is down during such a maintenance, Zabbix still considers that as an unacceptable unavailability of the service.

Tip

Host and host group-level maintenance was discussed in Chapter 5, Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions.

There is a way to avoid calculating SLA data for a specific period, though. Let's go to Configuration | IT services and click on Code repository. In the service properties, switch to the Time tab. Here we may add three types of time periods:

  • Uptime

  • Downtime

  • One-time downtime

Let's start with the simplest one—the One-time downtime. When adding...