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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246918

Pages 506 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Authors (2):

Nathan Liefting

Brian van Baekel

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing Zabbix and Getting Started Using the Frontend

2. Chapter 2: Getting Things Ready with Zabbix User Management

3. Chapter 3: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring

4. Chapter 4: Working with Triggers and Alerts

5. Chapter 5: Building Your Own Structured Templates

6. Chapter 6: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting

7. Chapter 7: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation

8. Chapter 8: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies

9. Chapter 9: Integrating Zabbix with External Services

10. Chapter 10: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API

11. Chapter 11: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup

12. Chapter 12: Advanced Zabbix Database Management

13. Chapter 13: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration

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Using the new Zabbix Geomap widget

Now that we have seen how to create dashboards in the previous recipe, let's set up another dashboard. We'll use this one to create a full-fledged geographical overview of some of our hosts in Zabbix. We'll do this by using the Zabbix inventory functionality we have just learned how to use.

Getting ready

All we need for this recipe is our Zabbix setup with access to the frontend. It is also smart to follow the previous two recipes about dashboards and inventory. If you have not followed those yet, it is recommended to follow them first.

How to do it…

Using the Zabbix Geomap functionality is quite easy. We simply need to use our Zabbix inventory on our hosts in combination with a dashboard widget:

First, let's navigate to our Configuration | Hosts page and edit one of our hosts. I'll be using the lar-book-templated_snmp host.
Go to the Inventory tab and make sure that it is set to Manual or Automatic...

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Authors (2)

Nathan Liefting

Nathan Liefting, also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist). He has more than 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan started working with Zabbix in 2016 when it was still at Zabbix 2 and Zabbix 3 was just released. He now works for Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands as a Zabbix trainer and consultant, designing and building professional Zabbix environments and Zabbix components for some of the biggest companies around the world.

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Brian van Baekel

Brian van Baekel quickly discovered how powerful Zabbix is during his career as a network engineer. Ever since, he has been working with Zabbix in various (large) environments, leading to his official Zabbix Certified Trainer certification in early 2017. In 2018, Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands and Opensource ICT Solutions LLC in the US. Both companies primarily focus on building Zabbix environments all over the world. In 2021, further expansion of the business was established by opening a subsidiary in the United Kingdom with a full focus on the Zabbix product. All companies provide support, training, and consultancy services, which means Brian works with the Zabbix product 24/7. Fun fact: Even his cat is named Zabbix.

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