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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
2. Active Monitoring of Your Devices
Understanding Zabbix hosts
Going beyond Zabbix agents
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3. Monitoring Your Network Services
3. Monitoring Your Network Services
Monitoring the DNS
Apache monitoring
NTP monitoring
Squid monitoring
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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
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MySQL partitioning
Housekeeping configuration
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B. Collecting Squid Metrics
Squid metric script
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Index
Index

Housekeeping configuration

As per our example, the housekeeping needs to be configured, as shown in the following screenshot, with a history data storage period of 730 days and a trend data storage period of 28 days. Here, you can change those values bearing in mind that you also need to change the parameter passed to the stored procedures.

To change the housekeeping setting in the web interface, you simply need to go to Administration | General | Housekeeping (from the drop-down list), and here is the configuration:

Housekeeping configuration
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