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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Monitoring hosts with Zabbix proxy

We have our active and passive Zabbix proxies ready to use, so it's now time to add some hosts to them. Setting up the Zabbix frontend to monitor hosts with Zabbix proxies works in about the same way as monitoring directly from the Zabbix server. The backend and design change completely though, which I'll explain in the How it works… section of this recipe.

Getting ready

Make sure you have your lar-book-proxy-passive passive proxy and your lar-book-proxy-active active proxy ready by following all of the previous recipes in this chapter.

You will also need your Zabbix server and at least two hosts to monitor. We will be using lar-book-agent_snmp and lar-book-agent in the example, but any host with an active and passive Zabbix agent will work.

How to do it…

We'll configure a host on both our active and our passive proxies to show you what the difference is between these two. Let's start with the passive...