Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Summary

Java is sometimes called the king of the enterprise. It's so popular in large systems, despite often-cited drawbacks, such as memory usage, that one might wonder what makes it so attractive. One reason could be that it lowers maintenance costs—at least, that is claimed sometimes, and it would make a lot of sense in large, long-life systems. Developing a system is usually cheap compared to maintaining it over a long period of time. Given the widespread usage of Java-based systems, the built-in JMX support is very handy—except maybe the limiting endpoint support. In this chapter, we looked at setting up a separate daemon, called the Zabbix Java gateway, and performing the initial configuration to make it work with a Zabbix server. We ...