Technical requirements
We are going to need several important servers for these recipes. First of all, we are going to need a running Zabbix 5 server for which to set up maintenance periods and do performance tuning.
We will need one of the following servers:
- A CentOS 7 server running Zabbix server 4.0 with PHP 5.4 and MariaDB 5.5
- An Ubuntu 16.04 server running Zabbix server 4.0 with PHP 7.0 and MariaDB 10.0
I will call this server lar-book-zbx4
, which you can run with a distribution of your choice.
If you do not have any prior experience with Zabbix, this chapter may prove a good challenge, as we are going to go in depth into the more advanced Zabbix processes.