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 up different ways to monitor your devices.