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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By : Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche
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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

Summary


Java is sometimes called the "king of the enterprise." It is so incredibly popular in large systems despite often-cited drawbacks such as memory usage that one might wonder what makes it so attractive. One reason could be that it lowers maintenance costs—at least that is claimed sometimes, and it would make a lot of sense in large, long-living systems. Developing a system is usually cheap compared to maintaining it over a long period of time. Given the widespread usage of Java-based systems, the built-in JMX support is very handy—except maybe the limiting endpoint support. In this chapter, we looked at setting up a separate daemon called the Zabbix Java gateway and performing the initial configuration to make it work with a Zabbix server. We also monitored heap memory usage on the gateway itself, and that should be a good start for JMX monitoring. For easier debugging, we used a simple wrapper around zabbix_get to query JMX through the gateway manually.

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