Chapter 4. Monitoring with Zabbix

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Active agents
  • Passive agents
  • Extending agents
  • Simple checks
  • SNMP checks
  • Internal checks
  • Zabbix trapper
  • IPMI checks
  • JMX checks
  • Aggregate checks
  • External checks
  • Database monitoring
  • Checks with SSH
  • Checks with Telnet
  • Calculated checks
  • Building web scenarios
  • Monitoring web scenarios
  • Some advanced monitoring tricks
  • Autoinventory

Introduction

Now that we know how to set up a Zabbix server and configure it, we will see what is the difference between active and a passive agent configuration. After we know the difference between the agent setups, we will see all the different kinds of ways to do checks which helps monitoring other servers with Zabbix. Those checks will help you in setting ...

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