Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials: Your one-stop solution to efficient network monitoring with Zabbix

231 Pages·2015·4.129 MB·English

by  Andrea Dalle Vacche, Stefano Kewan Lee

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Table of Contents
Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing a Distributed Zabbix Setup
Zabbix architectures
Understanding Zabbix data flow
Understanding the Zabbix proxies’ data flow
Installing Zabbix
Installing from packages
Setting up a Zabbix agent
Creating a Zabbix agent package with CheckInstall
Server configuration
Installing a database
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Considering the database size
MySQL partitioning
Installing a Zabbix proxy
Installing the WebGUI interface
Summary
2. Active Monitoring of Your Devices
Understanding Zabbix hosts
Hosts and host groups
Host interfaces
Host inventory
Going beyond Zabbix agents
Simple checks
Keeping SNMP simple
Getting SNMP data into Zabbix
Finding the right OIDs to monitor
Mapping SNMP OIDs to Zabbix items
Getting data types right
SNMP traps
Snmptrapd
Transforming a trap into a Zabbix item
Getting netflow from the devices to the monitoring server
Receiving netflow data on your server
Monitoring a log file with Zabbix
Summary
3. Monitoring Your Network Services
Monitoring the DNS
DNS – response time
DNSSEC – monitoring the zone rollover
Apache monitoring
NTP monitoring
NTP – what are we monitoring?
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Squid monitoring
Summary
4. Discovering Your Network
Finding hosts the Zabbix way
Defining action conditions
Choosing action operations
Remote commands
Low-level discovery
Summary
5. Visualizing Your Topology with Maps and Graphs
Creating custom graphs
Maps – a quick setup for a large topology
Maps – automating the DOT creation
Drafting Zabbix maps from DOT
Putting everything together with screens
Summary
A. Partitioning the Zabbix Database
MySQL partitioning
The partition_maintenance procedure
The partition_create procedure
The partition_verify procedure
The partition_drop procedure
The partition_maintenance_all procedure
Housekeeping configuration
B. Collecting Squid Metrics
Squid metric script
Index
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