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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Using LLD on templates

Now, let's get started on my favorite part of template creation: LLD. I think this is one of the most powerful and most used parts of Zabbix.

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, you will need your Zabbix server, the SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes, and our template from the previous recipe.

A working knowledge of the SNMP tree structure is also recommended. So, make sure to read the Working with SNMP monitoring recipe in Chapter 2, Setting up Zabbix Monitoring, thoroughly.

How to do it…

Let's get started by navigating to Configuration | Templates and selecting our Template OS Linux by SNMPvX template.
Now, go to Discovery rules, and in the top-right corner, click Create discovery rule. This will lead you to the LLD creation page:
Figure 4.25 – Zabbix LLD creation page, empty
Now, we will be making a discovery rule to discover our interfaces on the Linux host. The Linux SNMP tree for interfaces...