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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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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

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

PSK encryption

Let's start with a simple situation, a single new host for which the Zabbix server will accept PSK-encrypted incoming connections only for the ones we'll send some values to using zabbix_sender. For that to work, both the Zabbix server and zabbix_sender must be compiled with TLS support. The PSK configuration consists of a PSK identity and key. The identity is some string that isn't considered to be secret; it isn't encrypted during the communication, so don't put sensitive information in the identity string. The key is a hexadecimal string.

Zabbix requires the key to be at least 32 characters (hexadecimal digits) long. The maximum in Zabbix is 512 characters, but it might depend on the specific version of the backend library you're using.

We could just type the key in manually, but a slightly easier method might be using the openssl...

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