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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

Generating SLA reports


Most of the times, managers are not interested in how much disk capacity we have or how many CPUs we have in our servers. They are more interested in whether or not we are able to deliver our services. So in Zabbix SLA reporting is called IT services.

Getting ready

For IT services to work, we only need a properly configured Zabbix server with administration rights. It is also good to have the agent installed on your server to have it linked with the agent template.

How to do it...

  1. From the Zabbix menu, go to Configuration | IT services.

  2. You will see the root service; click on it and select Add a child.

  3. In the Name field we add Zabbix Server SLA or another name that makes sense.

  4. In the Status calculation algorithm we have three options to choose from:

    • Do not calculate: This option will not calculate the service status.

    • Problem, if at least one child has a problem: This option will change to problem status, if at least one child service has a problem.

    • Problem, if all children...