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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

Authentication options

In the scenario properties, there was also a tab that we didn't use: Authentication. Check it out here:

For HTTP authentication, Zabbix currently supports two options—Basic and NTLM. Digest authentication is not supported at this time, as you can see:

Choosing one of the HTTP authentication methods will provide input fields for a username and password.

All the other options are SSL/TLS-related. The checkboxes allow us to validate the server certificate—the SSL verify peer option checks the certificate validity, and SSL verify host additionally checks that the server hostname matches the Common Name or the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. The certificate authority is validated against the system default. The location of the CA certificates can also be overridden by the SSLCALocation parameter in the server configuration file...

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