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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

Monitoring Zabbix


When you run Zabbix, it's not always easy to know how many pollers you need, for example for SNMP, IPMI, and so on. To find out more about this, Zabbix has some built-in health checks. In this topic, we will show you how to read them.

Getting ready

For this recipe, make sure that you are a Zabbix administrator and that you have your agent configured on the Zabbix server. Also make sure that the template Template App Zabbix Server is linked with your Zabbix host.

How to do it

From the menu, go to Monitoring | Latest data and select the Zabbix server as host to see. Select Zabbix server from the item list to get an overview of the data of all items:

Here we have an easy overview of how much our pollers are busy or idle. Remember that in our Zabbix 2.4, we have graphs automatically generated in Latest data, so we can click on those graphs and see easy if, for example, at a certain time pollers were not enough available.

The data that we see here is based on the internal items, more...