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

Zabbix offers a lot of functionality out of the box. But where Zabbix really shines is customization, not only through the default frontend but especially with scripts and the Zabbix API.

In this chapter, I will go over the basics of using the Zabbix API. We will then see how a Python script can utilize the API to build something cool, such as a jumphost. After that, we'll use some scripts written by Brian van Baekel to schedule maintenance periods as a Zabbix user and to enable and disable hosts with limited permissions from a Zabbix map.

After following these recipes, you'll be more than ready to tackle the Zabbix API and you'll know how to use scripts to extend Zabbix functionality. This chapter will expand your possibilities with Zabbix to almost endless proportions and you'll be ready to become a professional Zabbix user yourself.

In this chapter, we will cover the following...