Technical requirements
We are going to need several important servers for these recipes. First of all, we are going to need a running Zabbix 6 server for which to set up maintenance periods and do performance tuning.
We will need one of the following servers:
- A CentOS 8 server running Zabbix server 5, a PHP version before 7.4, and a MariaDB version before 10.6
- An Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 server running Zabbix server 5.0, a PHP version before 7.4, and a MariaDB version before 10.6
I will call this server lar-book-zbx5
, 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 into the more advanced Zabbix processes in depth.