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Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition)

Learn how to monitor your large IT environments with this one-stop, comprehensive guide to the Zabbix world

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Learn how to monitor your large IT environments using Zabbix with this one-stop, comprehensive guide to the Zabbix world

Key Features

    Book Description

    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 which can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department.
    This new edition will provide you with all the knowledge you need to make strategic and practical decisions about the Zabbix monitoring system. The setup you’ll do with this book will fit your environment and monitoring needs like a glove. You will be guided through the initial steps of choosing the correct size and configuration for your system, to what to monitor and how to implement your own custom monitoring component. Exporting and integrating your data with other systems is also covered.
    By the end of this book, you will have a tailor-made and well configured monitoring system and will understand with absolute clarity how crucial it is to your IT environment.

    What you will learn

      Who this book is for

      This book is intended for system administrators and IT architects who need to better integrate their Zabbix installation with their surrounding environment. A basic, working knowledge of Zabbix and Linux is assumed so that the book can focus on how to use every component to its full advantage. It will also be helpful to be familiar with programming concepts and languages but if not, all the content in the book is thorough and well documented.

      Table of Contents

      1. Deploying Zabbix
      2. Distributed Monitoring
      3. High Availability and Failover
      4. Collecting Data
      5. Visualizing Data
      6. Managing Alerts
      7. Managing Templates
      8. Handling External Scripts
      9. Extending Zabbix
      10. Integrating Zabbix
      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-147-1
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 412