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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By : Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche
Book Image

Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By: Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche

Overview of this book

Nowadays, monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your system’s performance, but also to forecast capacity issues. This is where Zabbix, one of the most popular monitoring solutions for networks and applications, comes into the picture. With an efficient monitoring system in place, you’ll be able to foresee when your infrastructure runs under capacity and react accordingly. Due to the critical role a monitoring system plays, it is fundamental to implement it in the best way from its initial setup. This avoids misleading, confusing, or, even worse, false alarms that can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department. This course is for administrators who are looking for an end-to-end monitoring solution. It will get you accustomed with the powerful monitoring solution, starting with installation and explaining the fundamentals of Zabbix. Moving on, we explore the complex functionalities of Zabbix in the form of enticing recipes. These recipes will help you to gain control of your infrastructure. You will be able to organize your data in the form of graphs and charts along with building intelligent triggers for monitoring your network proactively. Toward the end, you will gain expertise in monitoring your networks and applications using Zabbix. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Zabbix Network Monitoring-Second Edition Zabbix Cookbook Mastering Zabbix-Second Edition
Table of Contents (51 chapters)
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Credits
Preface
6
Detecting Problems with Triggers
7
Acting upon Monitored Conditions
Bibliography
Index

Screens


The graphs and maps we are familiar with cannot be combined in a single page on their own—for that, we may use an entity called a screen. Let's proceed with creating one together: navigate to Monitoring | Screens, and click on the Create screen button. Enter Local servers in the Name field and 2 in the Columns field. We will be able to add more later, if needed:

Note

The same as with network maps, the way screens are configured has changed in Zabbix 3.0—it's now done in the monitoring section. Screens may also be created and shared by users.

Click on Add, and then click on Constructor next to Local servers. We are presented with a fairly unimpressive view:

So it's up to us to spice it up. Click on the left-hand Change link, and we have an editing form replacing the previous cell contents. The default resource type is graph, and we created some graphs earlier: click on Select next to the Graph field. In the upcoming window, make sure A test host is selected in the Host dropdown, and then...