Discovering JMX objects
In Chapter 3, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring, we went over setting up JMX monitoring in the recipe titled Setting up JMX monitoring. What we didn’t cover yet though was discovering JMX objects.
In this recipe, we will go over how to set up JMX objects with LLD, and after you’ve finished this recipe, you’ll know just how to set it up.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we will need the JMX host that you set up for the Setting up JMX monitoring recipe in Chapter 3, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring. Make sure to finish that recipe before working on this one.
We will also need our Zabbix server with our Zabbix JMX host titled lar-book-jmx
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How to do it…
- Let’s start this recipe off by logging in to our Zabbix frontend and navigating to Data collection | Templates.
- Create a new template by clicking on Create template in the top-right corner. Fill in the following fields:
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