Chapter 11: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup
Like any good piece of software, Zabbix needs to be maintained in order to keep working over the years. A lot of users have been running their setups since the days of Zabbix 2.0. It's perfectly viable to do this if you bring the right knowledge of Zabbix to the equation.
In this chapter, I am going to show you how to do some of the most important parts of Zabbix maintenance to make sure you can keep your setup available and running smoothly. We are going to cover creating maintenance periods, how to make backups, how to upgrade Zabbix and various Zabbix components, and how to do some performance maintenance.
We'll cover these in the following recipes:
- Setting Zabbix maintenance periods
- Backing up your Zabbix setup
- Upgrading the Zabbix backend from older PHP versions to PHP 7.2 or higher
- Upgrading a Zabbix database from older MariaDB versions to MariaDB 10.5
- Upgrading your Zabbix setup
- Maintaining...
