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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

Tweaking the proxy configuration


While many configuration parameters for a proxy are the same as for the server (the pollers to start, port to listen on, and so on), and some are the same as for the agent daemon (hostname), there are some proxy-specific parameters. Knowing about these can be helpful when diagnosing a proxy-related problem, or when the proxy must be deployed in a specific environment. For an active proxy, the following parameters affect it:

Option

Description

ProxyLocalBuffer

Proxy will keep data in the local database for this many hours. By default, all data that is synchronized to the Zabbix server is removed. This could be useful if we would like to extract some data that is not stored permanently on the Zabbix server, such as network discovery values.

ProxyOfflineBuffer

Proxy will keep data for this many hours if the Zabbix server is unavailable. By default, data older than one hour is discarded.

HeartbeatFrequency

By default, the Zabbix proxy sends a heartbeat...