Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring

Monitor your network hardware, servers, and web performance effectively and efficiently

Key Features

• Start with the very basics of Zabbix, an enterprise-class open source network monitoring solution, and move up to more advanced tasks later
• Efficiently manage your hosts, users, and permissions
• Get alerts and react to changes in monitored parameters by sending out e-mails, SMSs, or even execute commands on remote machines
• In-depth coverage for both beginners and advanced users with plenty of practical, working examples and clear explanations

Book Description

What you will learn

• Monitor servers that runs on most Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris, as well as Windows boxes
• Use proxies to monitor remote locations
• Visualize gathered data with graphs, pie charts, network maps, and other elements
• Directly monitor your SNMP (v1, 2, and 3) and IPMI devices
• Monitor any possible source of data with flexible user parameters
• Simplify and streamline your Zabbix configuration using templates
• Monitor your network by creating reports and charts using the built-in reporting capabilities of Zabbix
• Learn about the best options for showing data on a large display for help desk or technical personnel

Who this book is for

This book assumes no experience with Zabbix and minimal experience with Linux. Knowledge provided by this book, will be useful if:

you are responsible for managing in-house IT infrastructure such as network hardware, servers, and web pages

you are responsible for managing non-IT infrastructure that provides data such as temperature, flow, and other readings

you have clients with strict accessibility requirements and want to monitor hardware that provides services to them

you are a system administrator who wants to monitor the network hardware, servers, and web performance