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Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials

Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials

By : Andrea Dalle Vacche, Stefano Kewan Lee
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Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials

Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials

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By: Andrea Dalle Vacche, Stefano Kewan Lee

Overview of this book

If you are an experienced network administrator looking for a comprehensive monitoring solution that will keep a watchful eye on networks, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Installing a Distributed Zabbix Setup
1. Installing a Distributed Zabbix Setup
Zabbix architectures
Understanding Zabbix data flow
Understanding the Zabbix proxies' data flow
Installing Zabbix
Installing a database
Installing a Zabbix proxy
Installing the WebGUI interface
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2. Active Monitoring of Your Devices
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2. Active Monitoring of Your Devices
Understanding Zabbix hosts
Going beyond Zabbix agents
Summary
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3. Monitoring Your Network Services
3. Monitoring Your Network Services
Monitoring the DNS
Apache monitoring
NTP monitoring
Squid monitoring
Summary
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4. Discovering Your Network
4. Discovering Your Network
Finding hosts the Zabbix way
Low-level discovery
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5. Visualizing Your Topology with Maps and Graphs
5. Visualizing Your Topology with Maps and Graphs
Creating custom graphs
Maps – a quick setup for a large topology
Putting everything together with screens
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A. Partitioning the Zabbix Database
MySQL partitioning
Housekeeping configuration
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B. Collecting Squid Metrics
Squid metric script
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Index
Index

Understanding Zabbix hosts

One of Zabbix's great strengths is its flexibility when it comes to organizing monitoring data. Even without considering its powerful templating and discovery features, which will be covered in Chapter 4, Discovering Your Network, there is a lot that you can do with standard hosts, items, and triggers. Here are a few tips on how you can use them effectively.

Hosts and host groups

Zabbix hosts usually represent a single, specific box or appliance in your network. They can also be a part of one or more host groups.

Host groups are very useful as they make it easy to navigate Zabbix's interface, separating hosts into categories and allowing you to organize and manage a huge amount of appliances without having to deal with impossibly long lists of hostnames. The same host can be part of different host groups, and this can be very useful as you might want, for example, to have a group for all your routers, a group for all your switches, and a group for every...

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