Mastering Zabbix

A powerful tool on linux for Network MonitoringIt can support Large Network Environment,three kinds of deploying architecture and so many methods to detect Network and server resource usage.Mastering zabbixCopyright o 2013 Packt PublishingAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrievalsystem, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior writtenpermission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded incritical articles or reviewsEvery effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracyof the information presented. However, the information contained in this book issold without warranty, cither express or implied. Neither the authors, nor PacktPublishing and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damagescaused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this bookPackt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of thecompanies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitalsHowever, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this informationFirst published: December 2013Production reference: 1131213Published by Packt Publishing LtdLivery place35 Livery streetBirmingham b3 2PB, UKISBN978-1-78328-349-1www.packtpub.comCover Image by john Michael Harkness(jtothemagmail. com)www.allitebooks.comCreditsAuthorsCopy EditorsAndrea dalle vaccheSarang chariStefano Kewan leeAlida paivaAdithi shettyReviewersLaxmi subramanianJan GarajNitish kumarProject CoordinatorK.M. PetersonShiksha ChaturvediGergely polonkaiMatthew. smithProofreadeMario CecereAcquisition EditorsMary Jasmine NadarIndexerMariamman chettiyarNikhil KarkalLead technical editorGraphicsYuvraj MannanAzharuddin sheikhAbhinash sahuTechnical editorsSharvarih. BaetProduction coordinatorGauri DasguptaKyle AlbuquerqueAdrian raposoover woManan badaniKyle AlbuquerqueMrunmayee Patilwww.allitebooks.comAbout the authorsAndrea Dalle vacche is a highly skilled IT Professional with over 12 years ofindustry experience. He graduated from Univerista' degli studi di ferrara with anInformation Technology certification. This laid the technology foundation, whichAndrea has built on ever since. He has acquired various other industry respectedaccreditations, which include cisco, Oracle, rhce itil, and of course zabbixThroughout his career he has worked on many large-scale environments often in roleswhich have been very complex on a consultant basis. This has further enhanced hisgrowing skill set, adding to his practical knowledge base and concreting his appetitefor theoretical technical study. His love for Zabbix came from his time spent in theOracle world as a Database Administrator/Developer. His time was spent mainlyreducing " ownership costs" with specialization in monitoring and automation. This iswhere he came across Zabbix and the flexibility, both technically and administratively,it offered. Using this as a launch pad, it inspired Andrea to develop orabbix, the firstopen source software to monitor Oracle completely integrated with ZabbixAndrea has published a number of articles on Zabbix-related software suchasdbforBix.Hisprojectsarepubliclyavailablconhiswebsitehttp://wwwsmartmarmot. com. Currently, Andrea is working for a leading global investmentbank in a very diverse and challenging environment. His involvement is vastand deals with many aspects of the Unix/ Linux platforms as well as payingdue diligence to many different kinds of third-party software, which arestrategically aligned to the bank's technical roadmapFirst, I would like to thank my wife Anna for her support andencouragement during the writing of this book. I highly appreciateher help and advice. Many thanks to Fifi for her relaxing companyand fluffy stress relief. I am grateful to my ex-boss Giovanni forhis patience when i used to fill his mailbox with odd zabbix testmessages. It was nice having been cheered up by my friends andcolleagues: Bav with his precious suggestions and antonio alwaysready to encourage me. Special thanks to the Packt Publishing teamAbhijit, Nikhil, Sanhita, Mary and reshma. Their advice, effortand suggestions have been really valuable. The whole team hasbeen very professional and helpfulwww.allitebooks.comStefano Kewan lee is an it Consultant with 10 years of experience in systemintegration, security, and administration. He is a certified Zabbix specialist in LargeEnvironments, holds a Linux administration certification from the lpl and a giacGCFW certification from SaNs Institute. When he's not busy breaking websiteshe lives in the countryside with two cats and two dogs and practices martial artsI would like to thank all my family and friends for their help andsupport, my co-author Andrea, and most of all, my partner robertafor putting up with me on a daily basiswww.allitebooks.comabout the reviewersJan garaj is a DevOps engineer, who pulls his hair out, when he sees inefficientand expensive server/ software solutions. It's because he also wrote some dumbcode with terrible exponential O(n2)memory and computational complexityduring software engineering study. However, he learned from a few exceptionaleffective programmers that good algorithms don't need a ton of memory and fourcore processors. His first touch with Zabbix was in 2009 when he had to choosea monitoring system for his current employer. He chose Zabbix 1.6. Then, he alsocame across Zabbix in another company with high website traffic environmentor on mission critical servers in the automotive sector. he worked also forHewlett-Packard, so he knows some proprietary HP monitoring tools. But hestill prefers Zabbix for open source stack/ web monitoring. His Zabbix love laststo this day so he is an active zabbix frontend language maintainer and he mayalso be a code contributor one dayNitish Kumar is a Wintel Lead at HT Media Ltd and an independent tech bloggerabout various technologies. He has been working on several microsoft technologiesand open source solutions (including but not limited to Spiceworks, Manage EngineProducts, Zabbix, Ms Active Directory, MS Exchange Servers, and so on) for thepast eight years, of which the last couple of years have been spent on bringingcost-effective solutions to corporates to simplify their complex requirements and toimprove time management for their staff. He is a technology enthusiast and has beenparticipating at various corporate events and public webinars. Mobile technologieshave been of special interest to him and he has often written about various gadgetsand respective tech. Nitish holds an Ms degree in Software from JK Instituteof applied physics and technology and his areas of interest include microsofttechnologies, open source software, and mobile gadgetswww.allitebooks.comHeoccasionallyblogsathttp://nitishkumar.netandcanbereachedovere-mailat nitishonitishkumar netHuge thanks to my wife Pooja and colleagues for being there, and tomy kiddo for enduring through the process of writing the bookThanks to the packt Publishing team for their persistence andpatience -it surely was hard to work with a chaotic person like meK.M. Peterson has worked across traditional boundaries in informationthose who use technology in an organization work more productively and aTechnology, with a passion for listening and teaching, and a focus on helpinfficiently. His experience spans over 20 years in all facets of InformationTechnology, across academic, scientific, and commercial environments. He is atechnical manager, with hands-on expertise in infrastructure: computer serversnetwork technologies, data management, and the disciplines of creating facilitiesthat power reliable and scalable applications. He has built data centers and managedteams of systems administrators database architects network engineers and enduser support specialists. Mr. Peterson has mastered technologies from operatingsystems(Windows, Linux, and mac) to security, Storage Area Networks andvirtualization to network management and routingHe is an independent consultant Previously he was senior Director of InformationTechnology at Basis Technology Corp. where he architected new applications,enhanced data storage, systems automation, and network services and securityPrior to his position at Basis, Mr. Peterson worked for John Snow, Inc, a global publihealth consulting firm. Earlier, he managed Information Technology operations forthe Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, where he architected theproduction systems and managed teams that supported the largest contribution ofdata to the Human genome Project, crucial to the overall success of one of the largestscientific efforts yet completedwww.allitebooks.comGergely Polonkai is a systems engineer for SRV Monitoring, a network monitoringcompany, and a freelancer software developer. Educated as an electrician, he got incloser touch with computers at the age of 1 1 while messing with basic and pascalcode. In secondary school, he got two Monkey Linux boxes to manage, and his interestand commitment for Open Source Software remains since Gergely runs a small blogofhisown(http://gergely.polonkai.eu/blog),whichhasarticlesondevelopmentand linux administrationMatthew J. Smith has been in Enterprise IT since 1996, involved in a myriad oftechnology areas including systems administration, monitoring, and orchestrationvirtualization and cloud, software development, and his favorite area, identity andaccess management. Through almost two decades of experience at multiple levels ofthe It organization, leading teams and committees of all sizes through many tacticaland strategic initiatives, Matt has learned the value of bringing open source solutionsto enterprise-scale problemsMost recently, Matt has taken the opportunity to join Red Hat, Inc. as a SolutionArchitect, bringing his passion for and expertise in Enterprise Open Source to thoselooking to leverage red hlat technologies to solve real business problems. Interactindaily with enterprises in a great variety of global industries including financialservices,insurance, healthcare, pharmaceutical, automotive services, manufacturing,and hospitality matt experiences the viability and power of open source solutionssolving the most complex problems. matt has come to truly appreciate the values ofOpen Source, is a contributing member of multiple open Source communities and isa vocal advocate for Open Source approaches to solving problemswww.allitebooks.comWww. Packtpub. comSupport files, eBooks, discount offers and moreYoumightwanttovisitwww.PacktPub.comforsupportfilesanddownloadsrelatedtoⅴ our bookDid you know that Packt offers e book versions of every book published, with PDFandepuBfilesavailableYoucanupgradetotheebookversionatwww.Packtpub.comand as a print book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the ebook copy. 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