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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

Communicating with Zabbix


Now you know how the Zabbix protocol works, so it is time to see some code that implements this protocol. To keep things easy, we have described an example of the zabbix_sender protocol—the simplest way to send data to Zabbix.

Zabbix uses JSON to describe the object contained in the data. There are a lot of efficient JSON libraries that can be used, but to make things easier here, those libraries will not be used.

Implementing the Zabbix_sender protocol in Java

Here, you will see a really simple implementation of the zabbix_sender protocol that, as you know, is the easy way to send traps to Zabbix.

The piece of code that follows has been kept as simple as possible, and the scope is to provide an example from which you can start to develop your own Zabbix monitoring component:

private String buildJSonString(String host, String item,Long timestamp, String value){
  return  "{"
    + "\"request\":\"sender data\",\n"
    + "\"data\":[\n"
    +          "{\n"
      +    ...