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Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring

You're reading from   Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring Monitor the performance of your network devices and applications using the all-new Zabbix 4.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789340266
Length 798 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Zabbix FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Your First Notification 3. Monitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic Protocols 4. Monitoring SNMP Devices 5. Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions 6. Detecting Problems with Triggers 7. Acting upon Monitored Conditions 8. Simplifying Complex Configurations with Templates 9. Visualizing Data with Screens and Slideshows 10. Advanced Item Monitoring 11. Automating Configuration 12. Monitoring Web Pages 13. High-Level Business Service Monitoring 14. Monitoring IPMI Devices 15. Monitoring Java Applications 16. Monitoring VMware 17. Using Proxies to Monitor Remote Locations 18. Encrypting Zabbix Traffic 19. Working Closely with Data 20. Zabbix Maintenance 21. Troubleshooting 22. Being Part of the Community 23. Assessment 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

LLD

Currently, we are monitoring several parameters on our hosts, including network traffic. We configured those items by finding out the interface name and then manually specifying it for all of the relevant items. Interface names could vary from one system to another, and there could be a different number of interfaces on each system. The same could happen with filesystems, CPUs, and other entities. They could also change—a filesystem could get mounted or unmounted. Zabbix offers a way to deal with such different and potentially dynamic configurations with a feature called LLD. In the Zabbix documentation and community, it is usually known as LLD, and that is how we will refer to it in this book, too.

LLD normally enables us to discover entities on existing hosts (we will discuss more advanced functionality related to discovering hosts with LLD in Chapter 16, Monitoring...

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