Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy by Patrik Uytterhoeven

Key FeaturesMonitor your network and deploy impressive business solutions with ZabbixGet practical recipes to automate your Zabbix infrastructure and create impressive graphsIntegrate, customize, and extend your monitoring solutions with external components and software.Book DescriptionNowadays, monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your systems 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, youll 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.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:Zabbix Network Monitoring-Second EditionZabbix CookbookMastering Zabbix-Second EditionWhat you will learnEfficiently collect data from a large variety of monitoring objectsOrganize your data in graphs, charts, maps, and slide showsWrite your own custom probes and monitoring scripts to extend ZabbixConfigure Zabbix and its database to be high available and fault-tolerantAutomate repetitive procedures using Zabbixs APIFInd out how to monitor SNMP devicesManage hosts, users, and permissions while acting upon monitored conditionsSet up your Zabbix infrastructure efficientlyCustomize the Zabbix interface to suit your system needsMonitor your VMware infrastructure in a quick and easy way with ZabbixAbout the AuthorRihards Olups has over 15 years of experience in information technology, most of it with open source solutions. His foray into Zabbix, one of the leading open source enterprise-class monitoring solutions, was with the first public release back in 2001, which has allowed him to gain considerable knowledge on the subject. Previously employed by a government agency, Rihards was mostly involved in open source software deployment, ranging from server to desktop-grade software, with a big emphasis on Zabbix. Later, he joined Zabbix SIA, the company behind the software that this book is about, which allowed him to gain even more experience with the subject.While at Zabbix, he helped Zabbix users and customers get the most value out of the monitoring tool and was responsible for delivering Zabbix training sessions that have been described by some participants as extremely practical and quite challenging. He started working on the very first book on Zabbix, Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring, before joining Zabbix, and he finalized that book with even more in-depth details while helping advance Zabbix. Rihards departed from Zabbix SIA and ended up seeing more of the user side again, including deployments of Zabbix in real-world environmentsAndrea Dalle Vacche is a highly skilled IT professional with over 15 years of industry experience. He has acquired various other industry-respected accreditations from big players in the IT industry, which include Cisco, Oracle, ITIL, and of course, Zabbix. He also has a Red Hat Certified Engineer certification. Throughout his career, he has worked on many large-scale environments, often in roles that have been very complex, on a consultant basis.Andreas love for Zabbix came from the time he spent in the Oracle world as a database administrator/developer. His time was mainly spent on reducing ownership costs with specialization in monitoring and automation. This is where he came across Zabbix and the technical and administrative flexibility that it offered. With this as a launch pad, Andrea was inspired to develop Orabbix, the first piece of open source software to monitor Oracle that is completely integrated with Zabbix.He has published a number of articles on Zabbix-related software, such as DBforBIX. His projects are publicly available on his website at http://www.smartmarmot.com. Currently, Andrea is working as a senior architect for a leading global investment bank in a very diverse and challenging environment. His involvement is very wide ranging, and he deals with many critical aspects of the Unix/Linux platforms and pays due diligence to the many different types of third-party software that are strategically aligned to the banks technical roadmap. Andrea also plays a critical role within the extended management team for the security awareness of the bank, dealing with disciplines such as security, secrecy, standardization, auditing, regulator requirements, and security-oriented solutions.Patrik Uytterhoeven has over 16 years of experience in IT. Most of this time was spent on 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 gained the opportunity to certify himself as a Zabbix Certified Trainer. Since then, he has provided training and public demonstrations not only in Belgium but also around the world, in countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and Ireland.Because Patrik also has a deep interest in configuration management, he wrote some Ansible roles for Red Hat 6.x and 7.x to deploy and update Zabbix. These roles and some others can be found in the Ansible Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/users/1375.Table of ContentsGetting Started with ZabbixGetting Your First NotificationMonitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic ProtocolsMonitoring SNMP DevicesManaging Hosts, Users, and PermissionsDetecting Problems with TriggersActing upon Monitored ConditionsSimplifying Complex Configurations with TemplatesVisualizing Data with Graphs and MapsVisualizing Data with Screens and SlideshowsAdvanced Item MonitoringAutomating ConfigurationMonitoring Web PagesMonitoring WindowsHigh-Level Business Service MonitoringMonitoring IPMI DevicesMonitoring Java ApplicationsMonitoring VMwareUsing Proxies to Monitor Remote LocationsEncrypting Zabbix TrafficWorking Closely with DataZabbix MaintenanceTroubleshootingBeing Part of the CommunityGetting Around in ZabbixGroups, Users, and PermissionsMonitoring with ZabbixTesting with Triggers in ZabbixWorking with TemplatesData Visualization and Reporting in ZabbixMonitoring VMware and ProxiesAutodiscoveryZabbix Maintenance and APIUpgrading and Troubleshooting ZabbixDeploying ZabbixDistributed MonitoringHigh Availability and FailoverCollecting DataVisualizing DataManaging AlertsManaging TemplatesHandling External ScriptsExtending ZabbixIntegrating ZabbixBibliography