You're reading from Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook Explore the new features of Zabbix 5 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800202238

Length 428 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Zabbix

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Brian van Baekel

Nathan Liefting

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management

2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts

4. Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates

5. Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting

6. Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation

7. Chapter 7: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies

8. Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services

9. Chapter 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API

10. Chapter 10: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup

11. Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management

12. Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration

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Creating graphs for accessing visual data

Graphs in Zabbix are a powerful tool, to show what's going on with your collected data. You might have already found some graphs by using the Latest data page, but we can also create our own predefined graphs. In this recipe, we will go over doing just that.

Getting ready

Make sure to get your Zabbix server ready, along with a Linux host that we can monitor with SNMP. If you have followed along with the recipes in Chapter 4, Building Your Own Structured Templates, you should already have your own personal created template. Alternatively, download the template here:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Zabbix-5-Network-Monitoring-Cookbook

If you are using the downloaded templates, download and import Template OS Linux uptime by SNMPvX first, and then Template OS Linux by SNMPvX. Importing a template can be done at Configuration | Templates by pressing the blue Import button in the top-right corner.

Make sure to put the template...