Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring: Monitor the performance of your network devices and applications using the all-new Zabbix 4.0, 3rd Edition

Gather detailed statistics and deploy impressive business solutions with Zabbix 4.0

Key Features

• Experience the full impact of Zabbix 4.0, a useful and increasingly popular tool
• Enhance your network's performance and manage hosts and systems
• A step-by-step guide to smarter network monitoring

Book Description

Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring is the perfect starting point for monitoring the performance of your network devices and applications with Zabbix. Even if you've never used a monitoring solution before, this book will get you up and running quickly. You'll learn to monitor more sophisticated operations with ease and soon feel in complete control of your network, ready to meet any challenges you might face.

Starting with the installation, you will discover the new features in Zabbix 4.0. You will then get to grips with native Zabbix agents and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices. You will also explore Zabbix's integrated functionality for monitoring Java application servers and VMware. This book also covers notifications, permission management, system maintenance, and troubleshooting, so you can be confident that every potential challenge and task is under your control. If you're working with larger environments, you'll also be able to find out more about distributed data collection using Zabbix proxies. Once you're confident and ready to put these concepts into practice, you will understand how to optimize and improve performance. Troubleshooting network issues is vital for anyone working with Zabbix, so the book also helps you work through any technical snags and glitches you might face.

By the end of this book, you will have learned more advanced techniques to fine-tune your system and make sure it is in a healthy state.

What you will learn

• Install Zabbix server and an agent from source
• Manage hosts, users, and permissions while acting upon monitored conditions
• Visualize data with the help of ad hoc graphs, custom graphs, and maps
• Simplify complex configurations and learn to automate them
• Monitor everything from web pages to IPMI devices and Java applications to VMware stats
• Configure Zabbix to send alerts including problem severity and time periods
• Troubleshoot any network issue

Who this book is for

If you're new to Zabbix look no further than this book. Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring is for system and network administrators who are looking to put their knowledge to work with Zabbix 4.0.

Table of Contents

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 Configuration with Templates
9. Using Dashboards, Screens and Slideshows
10. Advanced Item Monitoring
11. Automating configuration
12. Monitoring Web Pages
13. High-level Business Service Monitoring
14. Monitoring IPMI Devices
15. Monitoring Java Applications
16. Monitoring VMware
17. Using Proxies to Monitor Remote Locations
18. Encrypting Zabbix Traffic
19. Working closely with data
20. Zabbix Maintenance
21. Visualizing Data with Graphs and Maps
22. Monitoring Windows
23. (Appendix A) Troubleshooting
24. (Appendix B) Being Part of the Community

Patrik Uytterhoeven has over 16 years of experience in IT, mostly with HP UNIX and Red Hat Linux. In late 2012, he joined Open-Future, a leading open source integrator and the first Zabbix reseller and training partner in Belgium. When Patrik joined Open-Future, he also became a Zabbix certified trainer. Since then, he has provided training and public demonstrations around the world, from Belgium to America and Asia. His next step was to author a book, so the first Zabbix Cookbook was born. Because Patrik also has a deep interest in configuration management, he wrote some Ansible roles. Patrik was also a technical reviewer of Learning Ansible and Ansible Configuration Management, both published by Packt Publishing.

Rihards Olups has over 20 years of experience in IT, most of it with open source solutions. He started using Zabbix in 2001, and joined Zabbix company later. Rihards spent 6 years at Zabbix, helping users and customers get the most value out of the monitoring tool. He briefly gets his mind off of Zabbix by improving OpenStreetMap.