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Zabbix Cookbook
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Zabbix Cookbook

by Patrik Uytterhoeven
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Monitoring the proxy

Having a proxy is nice, but how do you know that your proxy is still running fine? Are the buffers big enough? Do we need to optimize certain settings? And probably most importantly, how do you know when your proxy is not reporting any data? In this recipe, I will show you the answers to those questions.

Getting ready

What do we need ? As usual, we need our Zabbix server with super administration rights and of course, a Zabbix proxy properly configured as we have seen in the recipes setting up an active or a passive proxy.

How to do it…

  1. The first thing we have to do is set up an item on our Zabbix server. Go to Configuration | Hosts and create an item on your proxy.
  2. Use the following parameters to create your item:
    • Type: Zabbix ...
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ISBN: 9781784397586