Zabbix: Enterprise Network Monitoring Made Easy (PDF)

Learn how to gather detailed statistics and data with this one-stop, comprehensive course along with hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix.About This BookMonitor your network and deploy impressive business solutions with ZabbixGet practical recipes to automate your Zabbix infrastructure and create impressive graphsIntegrate, customize, and extend your monitoring solutions with external components and software.Who This Book Is ForThis course is for System Administrators who have been managing and monitoring infrastructure. You do not need any knowledge about Zabbix.What You Will LearnEfficiently collect data from a large variety of monitoring objectsOrganize your data in graphs, charts, maps, and slide showsWrite your own custom probes and monitoring scripts to extend ZabbixConfigure Zabbix and its database to be high available and fault-tolerantAutomate repetitive procedures using Zabbix's APIFInd out how to monitor SNMP devicesManage hosts, users, and permissions while acting upon monitored conditionsSet up your Zabbix infrastructure efficientlyCustomize the Zabbix interface to suit your system needsMonitor your VMware infrastructure in a quick and easy way with ZabbixIn DetailNowadays, monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your system's performance, but also to forecast capacity issues. This is where Zabbix, one of the most popular monitoring solutions for networks and applications, comes into the picture. With an efficient monitoring system in place, you'll be able to foresee when your infrastructure runs under capacity and react accordingly. Due to the critical role a monitoring system plays, it is fundamental to implement it in the best way from its initial setup. This avoids misleading, confusing, or, even worse, false alarms that can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department.This course is for administrators who are looking for an end-to-end monitoring solution. It will get you accustomed with the powerful monitoring solution, starting with installation and explaining the fundamentals of Zabbix. Moving on, we explore the complex functionalities of Zabbix in the form of enticing recipes. These recipes will help you to gain control of your infrastructure.You will be able to organize your data in the form of graphs and charts along with building intelligent triggers for monitoring your network proactively. Toward the end, you will gain expertise in monitoring your networks and applications using Zabbix.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:Zabbix Network Monitoring-Second EditionZabbix CookbookMastering Zabbix-Second EditionStyle and approachThis course is a compact practical guide that starts from the fundamentals of Zabbix and takes you all the way to building a monitoring solution that gathers data from a large variety of systems. Along the way, we will discuss the low-level operational details that should benefit you even if you have used Zabbix for a while. It also follows a step-by-step approach that is easy to follow, full of engaging examples, and will help you apply the theory to practice.