Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring电子书

Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring

Table of Contents

Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Zabbix

First steps in monitoring

Zabbix features and architecture

Installation

Server and agent

Software requirements

Hardware requirements

Getting the source

Compilation

Initial configuration

Creating and populating the database

Starting up

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Slackware

Verifying the service's state

The Web frontend

Prerequisites and setting up the environment

Installation of the web frontend

Step 1 — Welcome

Step 2 — Licence

Step 3 — PHP prerequisites

Step 4 — Database access.

Step 5 — Zabbix server details

Step 6 — Summary

Step 7 — Writing the configuration file

Step 8 — Configuration file in place

Step 9 — Finishing the wizard

Step 10 — Logging in

Summary

2. Getting Your First Notification

Exploring the frontend

Monitoring quickstart

Creating a host

Creating an item

Introducing simple graphs

Creating triggers

Configuring e-mail parameters

Creating an action

Information flow in Zabbix

Let's create some load

Basic item configuration

Monitoring categories

Availability

Performance

Security

Management

Efficiency

Item types

How items can be monitored

Summary

3. Monitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic Protocols

Using Zabbix agent

Passive items

Cloning items

Active items

Supported items

Simple checks

Setting up ICMP checks

Tying it all together

Positional parameters for item descriptions

Using mass update

Value mapping

Copying items

Summary

4. Monitoring SNMP and IPMI Devices

Simple Network Management Protocol

Using Net-SNMP

Using SNMPv3 with Net-SNMP

Adding new MIBs

Working with SNMP items in Zabbix

Translating SNMP OIDs

Dynamic indexes

Receiving SNMP traps

Trap handling schemes

Custom mapping

Database lookups

SNMP Trap Translator

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

Dell Remote Access Controller

Preparing Zabbix for IPMI querying

Configuring DRAC IPMI access

Setting up IPMI items

Card attached to one of the already monitored hosts

Card attached to a different host

Creating IPMI item

Summary

5. Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions

Host and host groups

Users, user groups, and permissions

Authentication methods

Creating a user

Creating user groups

Summary

6. Acting Upon Monitored Conditions

Triggers

Trigger dependencies

Constructing trigger expressions

Triggers that time out

Human-readable constants

Event details

Event generation and hysteresis

Actions

Limiting conditions when actions are sent

Additional action conditions

Dependencies and actions

Per media limits

Sending out notifications

Using macros

Escalating things

Integration with issue management systems

Bugzilla

CA Unicenter Service Desk

Using scripts as media

Remote commands

Summary

7. Simplifying Complex Configuration with Templates

Identifying template candidates

Creating a template

Linking templates to hosts

Changing configuration in template

Macro usage

Using multiple templates

Unlinking templates from hosts

Nested templates

Summary

8. Visualizing the Data

Visualize what?

Single elements

Graphs

Simple graphs

Custom graphs

Working time and trigger line

Two y-axis

Sort order

Custom y-axis scale

Stacked graphs

Pie graphs

Maps

Creating a map

Linking map elements

Further map customization

Macros in labels

Link labels

Map element highlighting

Global map options

Available map elements

Compound elements

Screens

Dynamic screens

Slide shows

Showing data on a big display

Challenges

Non-interactive display

Information overload

Displaying a specific section automatically

Recent change flashing

Summary

9. Creating Reports

Simple reports

Status of Zabbix

Availability report

Most busy triggers top 100

Bar reports

Distribution of values for multiple periods

Distribution of values for multiple items

Comparing values for multiple periods

Summary

10. Advanced Item Monitoring

Aggregate items

External checks

User parameters

Just getting it to work

Querying data that Zabbix agent does not support

Flexible user parameters

Level of the details monitored

Environment trap

Things to remember about user parameters

Wrapper scripts

Other methods to gather data

Sending in the data

Using custom agents

Summary

11. Monitoring Windows and Web Pages

Monitoring web pages

Creating web monitoring scenario

Windows-specific monitoring

Installing Zabbix agent for Windows

Querying performance counters

Using numeric references to performance counters

Using aliases for performance counters

Monitoring Windows services

Checking whether an automatic service has stopped

Summary

12. Using Proxies to Monitor Remote Locations

When proxies are useful

Setting up the proxy

Monitoring a host through a proxy

Proxy benefits

Proxy reliability

Tweaking proxy configuration

Summary

13. Working Closely with Data

Getting raw data

Extracting from the frontend

Querying the database

Using data in a remote site

Diving further in the database

Managing users

Converting a host to a template

Changing existing data

Finding out "when"

"When" in computer language

Finding out what

Performing the change

Using XML import/export for configuration

Exporting initial configuration

Modifying configuration

XML export format

Script around the export

Importing modified configuration

Summary

14. Upgrading Zabbix

General policy

Zabbix versions

Version upgrades

Upgrading Zabbix

Change level upgrade

Adding the indexes

Replacing frontend files

Minor or major level upgrades

Patching the database

Gathering the data during the upgrade

Frontend configuration file

Compatibility

Summary

15. Taking Care of Zabbix

Internal items

Performance considerations

Reducing the query count

Increasing write performance

Who did that?

Real men make no backups

Backing up the database

Restoring from backup

Separating configuration and data backups

Summary

A. Troubleshooting

Installation

Compilation

Frontend

Starting services

Frontend

Locked out of the frontend

Problems with monitoring

General monitoring

Monitoring with Zabbix agent

User parameters

Problems with SNMP devices

Problems with IPMI monitoring

Problems with ICMP checks

General issues

Triggers

Actions

B. Being Part of the Community

Community and support

Using the Zabbix forum

Editing the wiki

Chatting on IRC

Filing issues on the tracker

Following the development

Getting the source

Daily snapshots

Accessing the version control system

Looking at the changesets

Commercial support options

Summary

Index