Zabbix 1.8 network monitoring : monitor your network's hardware, servers, and Web performance effectively and efficiently / Rihards Olups.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olups, Rihards.

Series:

From technologies to solutions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Management--Software.

Computer networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Monitor your network hardware, servers, and web performance effectively and efficiently

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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 prerequisitesStep 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; Chapter 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

SecurityManagement; Efficiency; Item types; How items can be monitored; Summary; Chapter 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; Chapter 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 indexesReceiving SNMP traps; Trap handling schemes; 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; Chapter 5: Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions; Host and host groups; Users, user groups, and permissions; Authentication methods; Creating a user; Creating user groups; Summary; Chapter 6: Acting Upon Monitored Conditions; Triggers; Trigger dependencies

Constructing trigger expressionsTriggers 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; Chapter 7: Simplifying Complex Configuration with Templates; Identifying template candidates; Creating a template; Linking templates to hosts

Changing configuration in template

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612557323

9781282557321

1282557327

9781847197696

1847197698

OCLC:

696639215