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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

You're reading from   Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy Ultimate open source, real-time monitoring tool

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129047
Length 1327 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rihards Olups Rihards Olups
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Andrea Dalle Vacche Andrea Dalle Vacche
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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Credits
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 Graphs and Maps 10. Visualizing Data with Screens and Slideshows 11. Advanced Item Monitoring 12. Automating Configuration 13. Monitoring Web Pages 14. Monitoring Windows 15. High-Level Business Service Monitoring 16. Monitoring IPMI Devices 17. Monitoring Java Applications 18. Monitoring VMware 19. Using Proxies to Monitor Remote Locations 20. Encrypting Zabbix Traffic 21. Working Closely with Data 22. Zabbix Maintenance 23. Zabbix Configuration 24. Getting Around in Zabbix 25. Groups, Users, and Permissions 26. Monitoring with Zabbix 27. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix 28. Working with Templates 29. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix 30. Monitoring VMware and Proxies 31. Autodiscovery 32. Zabbix Maintenance and API 33. Deploying Zabbix 34. Distributed Monitoring 35. High Availability and Failover 36. Collecting Data 37. Visualizing Data 38. Managing Alerts 39. Managing Templates 40. Handling External Scripts 41. Extending Zabbix 42. Integrating Zabbix Troubleshooting Being Part of the Community Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix Bibliography
Index

Testing our trigger expressions


We have seen so far that we can build triggers by hand and by selecting triggers from a list. What we have not seen yet is a way to test our triggers before throwing everything in production. In this recipe, we will show you how to test the triggers you have just created.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need as always our Zabbix server properly set up with a super administrator account. You should also be familiar with creating items and triggers. In this recipe we will make use again of the ping item that we have created in our recipe, Creating triggers.

How to do it ...

  1. Go back to the trigger that we have created for our item that was checking the availability of our host by making use of ping.

  2. Edit the trigger that we have created in our recipe, Creating triggers:

  3. Click on Expression constructor; you will now see a new box with our expression.

  4. At the left bottom of the box there is a small button named Test. Click on it and a new window will popup:

  5. As you...

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