Zabbix 7 Application and Network Monitoring
What you'll learn
- Installation and Configuration of Zabbix Server and Agents on PC and Linux
- Create Auto Registration Rules to Auto Add and Configure Discovered Hosts
- Understand Active Versus Passive Items
- Configuring Domain name and SSL for Zabbix Server
- Configure SMTP for email alerts
- Creating a Graphical Network Map of All Hosts Indicating Status
- Creating Template Items for Assigning to Multiple Hosts
- Item Preprocessing using Regex, Javascript and JSONPath
- Web Monitoring from Different Geographical Locations for HTTP Status Codes and Response Speeds
- Configure PSK Encryption between Zabbix Server and Agents
- Execute remote commands on Windows and Linux
- Monitor SSL Certificate Expiry
- Log File Monitoring Nginx Proxy HTTP Status Codes
- UserParameters
- Calculated Items
- Dependent Items
- JSON API Monitoring with the HTTP Agent Item
Requirements
- You will need access to several PCs and/or locally hosted or cloud hosted VMs and/or Rasberry PIs. In this course I demonstrate various features using Windows, Ubuntu and CentOS
Description
Hello, and welcome to my course on Zabbix,
Zabbix is a complete open source monitoring software solution for networks, operating systems and applications.
In this course you will install and extensively configure Zabbix Server and multiple Zabbix Agents on Windows and Linux whether on the same network, behind a firewall, on dedicated hardware locally and cloud hosted.
We will also look at,
Installing a Zabbix Server with Database,
Installing Multiple Agents on Ubuntu, CentOS and Windows,
Understanding Active an Passive Checks,
Enabling PSK Encryption for Security,
Host Items, Triggers, Graphs, and Dashboards,
Understanding Zabbix health,
Installing Ubuntu, CentOS Operating Systems and Configuring Firewalls,
Alerting with SMTP,
Creating your own templates,
Creating a Network Map,
Reading Windows Event Logs,
Reading Linux system logs,
Item Pre-Processing using Regex, JavaScript and JSON Path,
Dependent items,
JSON API and HTTP monitoring,
Executing remote bat and sh scripts,
Custom User Parameters,
Global Scripts,
Calculated Items,
Auto Registration and Discovery,
Users, Groups and Roles,
and much more.
Zabbix can be used in the enterprise or even on you own home network where you can have much better visibility of the things connected and running on it and how they are used.
Thanks for taking part in my course, and let's get started.
Who this course is for:
- Network Engineers
- IT Platform Specialists
- System Administrators
- DevOps Technicians
- Enthusiasts wanting a better understanding and better visibility of their networks in the home or office
- Someone who is curious and wants a better understanding of what Zabbix does and what Zabbix is good at
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Instructor
Hello, I'm Sean.
For over 20 years I have been an IT engineer building and managing real time, low latency, high availability, asynchronous, multi threaded, remotely managed, fully automated, monitored solutions in the education, aeronautical, banking, drone, gaming and telecommunications industries.
I have also created and written hundreds of Open Source GitHub Repositories, Medium Articles and YouTube video tutorials.