Zabbix: Enterprise Network Monitoring Made Easy

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 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. Preview: https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/book/networking_and_servers/9781787129047 ‌ ‌ ‌ 1 Getting Started with Zabbix 2 Getting Your First Notification 3 Monitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic Protocols 4 Monitoring SNMP Devices 5 Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions 6 Detecting Problems with Triggers 7 Acting upon Monitored Conditions 8 Simplifying Complex Configurations with Templates 9 Visualizing Data with Graphs and Maps 10 Visualizing Data with Screens and Slideshows 11 Advanced Item Monitoring 12 Automating Configuration 13 Monitoring Web Pages 14 Monitoring Windows 15 High-Level Business Service Monitoring 16 Monitoring IPMI Devices 17 Monitoring Java Applications 18 Monitoring VMware 19 Using Proxies to Monitor Remote Locations 20 Encrypting Zabbix Traffic 21 Working Closely with Data 22 Zabbix Maintenance 23 Zabbix Configuration 24 Getting Around in Zabbix 25 Groups, Users, and Permissions 26 Monitoring with Zabbix 27 Testing with Triggers in Zabbix 28 Working with Templates 29 Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix 30 Monitoring VMware and Proxies 31 Autodiscovery 32 Zabbix Maintenance and API 33 Deploying Zabbix 34 Distributed Monitoring 35 High Availability and Failover 36 Collecting Data 37 Visualizing Data 38 Managing Alerts 39 Managing Templates 40 Handling External Scripts 41 Extending Zabbix 42 Integrating Zabbix A Appendix A: Index