Zabbix cookbook over 70 hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix
If you have some experience with Zabbix and wish to take your infrastructure to the next level, then this book is for you. Before you start with Zabbix, or monitoring in general, it is best to have some basic Linux knowledge and a good understanding of snmp, virtualization, and scripting
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK
Packt Publishing
2015
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| Series: | Quick answers to common problems
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Zabbix Configuration; Introduction; Server installation and configuration; Agent installation and configuration; Frontend installation and configuration; Installing Zabbix from source; Installing the server in a distributed setup; Chapter 2: Getting Around in Zabbix; Introduction; Exploring the frontend; Zabbix definitions; Acknowledging triggers; Zabbix architecture; Getting an overview of the latest data; Chapter 3: Groups, Users, and Permissions; Introduction
- Trigger constructorMore advanced triggers; Testing our trigger expressions; Chapter 6: Working with Templates; Introduction; Creating templates; Importing and exporting templates; Linking templates; Nesting templates; Macros in templates; Chapter 7: Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix; Introduction; Creating graphs; Creating screens; Creating slideshows; Building maps in Zabbix; Creating reports; Generating SLA reports; Chapter 8: Monitoring VMware and Proxies; Introduction; Configuring Zabbix for VMware; Monitoring VMware; Installing a proxy; Setting up an active proxy
- Setting up a passive proxyMonitoring hosts through a proxy; Monitoring the proxy; Chapter 9: Autodiscovery; Introduction; Configuring network discovery; Automation after discovery; Active agent autoregistration; Low-level discovery; Chapter 10: Zabbix Maintenance and API; Introduction; Maintenance periods; Monitoring Zabbix; Backups; Avoiding performance issues; Zabbix API; API by example; Appendix: Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix; Introduction; Some guidelines to upgrade Zabbix; Upgrading your Zabbix installation; Troubleshooting in Zabbix; Zabbix best practices
- What to expect in Zabbix 3.0Zabbix community; Index
- Creating hostsCreating host groups; Creating users; Creating user groups; General administration; Authenticating users; Chapter 4: Monitoring with Zabbix; Introduction; Active agents; Passive agents; Extending agents; SNMP checks; Internal checks; Zabbix trapper; IPMI checks; JMX checks; Aggregate checks; External checks; Database monitoring; Checks with SSH; Checks with Telnet; Calculated checks; Building web scenarios; Monitoring web scenarios; Some advanced monitoring tricks; Autoinventory; Chapter 5: Testing with Triggers in Zabbix; Introduction; Creating triggers; Testing log files