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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

By : Rihards Olups, Patrik Uytterhoeven, Andrea Dalle Vacche
Book Image

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

Graphs


Inside Zabbix, you can divide the graphs into two categories—simple graphs and custom graphs. Both of these are analyzed in the next section.

Analyzing simple graphs

Simple graphs in Zabbix are something really immediate since you don't need to put in a lot of effort to configure this feature. You only need to go to Monitoring | Latest data, eventually filter by the item name, and click on the graph. Zabbix will show you the historical graph, as shown in the following screenshot:

Clearly, you can graph only numeric items, and all the other kinds of data, such as text, can't be shown on a graph. On the latest data item, you will see the graph link instead—a link that will show the history.

Note

No configuration is needed, but you can't customize this graph.

At the top of the graphs, there is the time period selector. If you enlarge this period, you will see the aggregated data. As long as the period is little and you would like to see very recent data, you will see a single line. If the...