Learn how to monitor your large IT environments using Zabbix with this one-stop, comprehensive guide to the Zabbix worldAbout This Book• Create a tailor-made monitoring solution based on your specific needs• Learn advanced techniques of Zabbix to monitor networks, performances, and other critical features in large environments• Integrate, customize, and extend your monitoring solutions with external components and softwareWho This Book Is ForThis book is intended for system administrators and IT architects who need to better integrate their Zabbix installation with their surrounding environment. A basic, working knowledge of Zabbix and Linux is assumed so that the book can focus on how to use every component to its full advantage. It will also be helpful to be familiar with programming concepts and languages but if not, all the content in the book is thorough and well documented.What You Will Learn• Efficiently collect data from a large variety of monitoring objects• Organize your data in graphs, charts, maps, and slide shows• Build intelligent triggers and alarms to monitor your network proactively• Write your own custom probes and monitoring scripts to extend Zabbix• Configure Zabbix and its database to be high available and fault-tolerant• Automate repetitive procedures using Zabbix's API• Integrate Zabbix with external systems• Understand the protocol and how to interact with it by writing your own custom agentIn DetailNowadays monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your system's performance, but also to forecast capacity issues. This is where Zabbix, one of the most popular monitoring solutions for networks and applications, comes into the picture. With an efficient monitoring system in place you'll be able to foresee when your infrastructure runs under capacity and react accordingly. Due to the critical role a monitoring system plays, it is fundamental to implement it in the best way from its initial setup. This avoids misleading, confusing, or, even worse, false alarms which can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department.This new edition will provide you with all the knowledge you need to make strategic and practical decisions about the Zabbix monitoring system. The setup you'll do with this book will fit your environment and monitoring needs like a glove. You will be guided through the initial steps of choosing the correct size and configuration for your system, to what to monitor and how to implement your own custom monitoring component. Exporting and integrating your data with other systems is also covered.By the end of this book, you will have a tailor-made and well configured monitoring system and will understand with absolute clarity how crucial it is to your IT environment.Style and approachThis book is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to monitoring network and performance in large environments with Zabbix. It is designed for real-world Zabbix administrators, and is comprised of a perfect mix of theoretical explanations and practical applications, making it your perfect companion.

Monitoring systems can be extremely useful not only to identify specific problems, but also to measure your system's performance and find the best way to improve it. However, they can be misleading and confusing if not correctly configured and managed. Zabbix 2.2 allows you to customize and implement ideas by extending, adding, or customizing functionality, giving an added value to that technology. This comprehensive guide will help you to make both strategic and practical decisions about the Zabbix monitoring system, so that it will fit your environment and monitoring needs like a glove.

Monitor your network hardware, servers, and web performance effectively and efficiently.

Learn how to gather detailed statistics and data with this one-stop, comprehensive course along with hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix. About This Book Monitor your network and deploy impressive business solutions with Zabbix Get practical recipes to automate your Zabbix infrastructure and create impressive graphs Integrate, customize, and extend your monitoring solutions with external components and software. Who This Book Is For This course is for System Administrators who have been managing and monitoring infrastructure. You do not need any knowledge about Zabbix. What You Will Learn Efficiently collect data from a large variety of monitoring objects Organize your data in graphs, charts, maps, and slide shows Write your own custom probes and monitoring scripts to extend Zabbix Configure Zabbix and its database to be high available and fault-tolerant Automate repetitive procedures using Zabbix's API FInd out how to monitor SNMP devices Manage hosts, users, and permissions while acting upon monitored conditions Set up your Zabbix infrastructure efficiently Customize the Zabbix interface to suit your system needs Monitor your VMware infrastructure in a quick and easy way with Zabbix In Detail Nowadays, monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your system's performance, but also to forecast capacity issues. This is where Zabbix, one of the most popular monitoring solutions for networks and applications, comes into the picture. With an efficient monitoring system in place, you'll be able to foresee when your infrastructure runs under capacity and react accordingly. Due to the critical role a monitoring system plays, it is fundamental to implement it in the best way from its initial setup. This avoids misleading, confusing, or, even worse, false alarms that can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department. This course is for administrators who are looking for an end-to-end monitoring solution. It will get you accustomed with the powerful monitoring solution, starting with installation and explaining the fundamentals of Zabbix. Moving on, we explore the complex functionalities of Zabbix in the form of enticing recipes. These recipes will help you to gain control of your infrastructure. You will be able to organize your data in the form of graphs and charts along with building intelligent triggers for monitoring your network proactively. Toward the end, you will gain expertise in monitoring your networks and applications using Zabbix. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Zabbix Network Monitoring-Second Edition Zabbix Cookbook Mastering Zabbix-Second Edition Style and approach This course is a compact practical guide that starts from the fundamentals of Zabbix and takes you all the way to building a monitoring solution that gathers data from a large variety of systems. Along the way, we will discuss the low-level operational details that should benefit you even if you have used Zabbix for a while. It also follows a step-by-step approach that is easy to follow, full of engaging examples, and will help you apply the theory to practice.

Learn how to monitor your large IT environments using Zabbix with this one-stop, comprehensive guide to the Zabbix world About This Book Create a tailor-made monitoring solution based on your specific needs Learn advanced techniques of Zabbix to monitor networks, performances, and other critical features in large environments Integrate, customize, and extend your monitoring solutions with external components and software Who This Book Is For This book is intended for system administrators and IT architects who need to better integrate their Zabbix installation with their surrounding environment. A basic, working knowledge of Zabbix and Linux is assumed so that the book can focus on how to use every component to its full advantage. It will also be helpful to be familiar with programming concepts and languages but if not, all the content in the book is thorough and well documented. What You Will Learn Efficiently collect data from a large variety of monitoring objects Organize your data in graphs, charts, maps, and slide shows Build intelligent triggers and alarms to monitor your network proactively Write your own custom probes and monitoring scripts to extend Zabbix Configure Zabbix and its database to be high available and fault-tolerant Automate repetitive procedures using Zabbix's API Integrate Zabbix with external systems Understand the protocol and how to interact with it by writing your own custom agent In Detail Nowadays monitoring systems play a crucial role in any IT environment. They are extensively used to not only measure your system's performance, but also to forecast capacity issues. This is where Zabbix, one of the most popular monitoring solutions for networks and applications, comes into the picture. With an efficient monitoring system in place you'll be able to foresee when your infrastructure runs under capacity and react accordingly. Due to the critical role a monitoring system plays, it is fundamental to implement it in the best way from its initial setup. This avoids misleading, confusing, or, even worse, false alarms which can disrupt an efficient and healthy IT department. This new edition will provide you with all the knowledge you need to make strategic and practical decisions about the Zabbix monitoring system. The setup you'll do with this book will fit your environment and monitoring needs like a glove. You will be guided through the initial steps of choosing the correct size and configuration for your system, to what to monitor and how to implement your own custom monitoring component. Exporting and integrating your data with other systems is also covered. By the end of this book, you will have a tailor-made and well configured monitoring system and will understand with absolute clarity how crucial it is to your IT environment. Style and approach This book is an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to monitoring network and performance in large environments with Zabbix. It is designed for real-world Zabbix administrators, and is comprised of a perfect mix of theoretical explanations and practical applications, making it your perfect companion.

If you are an experienced network administrator looking for a comprehensive monitoring solution that will keep a watchful eye on networks, then this book is for you.

Performance is one of the main issues that every administrator faces at one point or another. This book will help you to identify and mitigate it. The book starts with an introduction to Zabbix and the most common mistakes that are usually overlooked while deploying it. You will discover the importance of an impressive and easy-to-use front-end and how to develop one, along with comparisons between Apache, Ngnix, and lighttpd web servers. Storage, as an important aspect of every deployment, is covered and you will be shown how to choose the right storage system for you and configure it to suit your deployment. Towards the end of the book, you will walk through the intricacies of the operating system; the final piece of the puzzle that holds all the components together. You will then dive into advanced topics including using a specific piece of hardware for each of the components, the Zabbix proxy, and firewall settings. By the end of the book, you will be able to tune your Zabbix implementation to achieve maximum performance.

If you have some experience with Zabbix and wish to take your infrastructure to the next level, then this book is for you. Before you start with Zabbix, or monitoring in general, it is best to have some basic Linux knowledge and a good understanding of snmp, virtualization, and scripting.

Become an expert at using JIRA 7 through this one-stop guide! About This Book This comprehensive guide will help you implement, customize and administer JIRA 7 application to meet the needs of your organization You will get to know the strategies needed to develop and deploy JIRA 7, along with best practices when working with Jira It covers the latest integrations of JIRA 7 with third-party platforms to help you professionally manage your software development projects Who This Book Is For If you are a JIRA administrator who is managing small-to-medium JIRA instances and you want to learn how to manage enterprise-scale instances, then this book will help you expand your knowledge and equip you with advanced skills. Prior understanding of the JIRA core concepts is required. What You Will Learn Plan the installation and upgrade of your JIRA instance to the newest version Configure issue type schemes, create customized workflows, modify permission schemes, and change notification schemes Implement JIRA Service Desk to manage your support tickets Customize JIRA for test management, helpdesk, and requirement management Deploy JIRA for Agile tracking using the Scrum and Kanban techniques Develop JIRA add-ons to extend JIRA's functionality Migrate data from external systems using CSV import Generate reports directly from the JIRA database and use custom JavaScript and CSS Integrate your JIRA application with third-party tools such as Confluence, SVN, and Git In Detail Atlassian JIRA 7 is an enterprise issue tracker system. One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of an organization, ranging from building software products to managing your support issues. This book provides a comprehensive explanation covering all three components of JIRA 7, such as JIRA Software, JIRA Core, and Jira Service Desk. It shows you how to master the key functionalities of JIRA and its customizations and useful add-ons, and is packed with real-world examples and use cases. You will first learn how to plan for a JIRA 7 installation and fetch data. We cover JIRA reports in detail, which will help you analyze your data effectively. You can add additional features to your JIRA application by choosing one of the already built-in add-ons or building a new one to suit your needs. Then you'll find out about implementing Agile methodologies in JIRA by creating Scrum and Kanban boards. We'll teach you how to integrate your JIRA Application with other tools such as Confluence, SVN, Git, and more, which will help you extend your application. Finally, we'll explore best practices and troubleshooting techniques to help you find out what went wrong and understand how to fix it. Style and approach This comprehensive book covers the advanced and new features of JIRA 7 with the help of rich code-based, real-world examples and use cases.

Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Windows, Linux, and networking Key FeaturesFind out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 5Perform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring on multiple platformsDiscover easy-to-follow, practical solutions to problems in network monitoring with ZabbixBook Description Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its variety of powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 5 for effectively monitoring the performance of devices and applications over networks. The book starts by guiding you through the installation of Zabbix and using the Zabbix frontend. You'll then work your way through the most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. The book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. As you advance, you'll learn how to use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your everyday Zabbix monitoring work. By the end of this Zabbix book, you'll have learned how to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and be able to build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities. What you will learnExplore the different types of monitoring available in Zabbix 5Find out how to build your own Zabbix templatesUse Zabbix proxies for effective load balancing/scalingWork with custom integrations and the Zabbix APISet up triggers and alerting with Zabbix 5Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgradesDiscover how to perform advanced Zabbix database managementMonitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and DockerWho this book is for This book is for IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix and anyone with an intermediate understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. Although not necessary, prior experience with Zabbix will help you to make the most of this book.