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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

Creating templates


In this recipe, we will show you how you can create templates in Zabbix. It's always advised to use templates as much as possible.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a Zabbix server and access to the server with a Zabbix administrator or super administrator account.

How to do it ...

  1. From the menu, go to Configuration | Templates.

  2. Click on the Template button on the upper right corner.

  3. In the field Template name, you can write the name of your template, example. PostgreSQL template.

  4. In the box Visible name, you can add a name that will be visible in Zabbix in case that the name of your template is too long or too cryptic for some reason.

  5. In Groups, we will choose the group to which our template belongs. Here we select Templates as group.

  6. In the Description box we can write a note. This can be handy for later if the name of your template is not informative enough to know what you monitor.

  7. Next we click Add to save our templates.

  8. From the Configuration | Templates page, we can now...