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Zabbix — Monitoring and Alerts

Know when something breaks before your users do. Zabbix is an open-source, enterprise-grade monitoring platform built around a central server that collects data from lightweight agents and SNMP-enabled devices. It gives you real-time visibility into every router, server, and antenna in your network, fires alerts when things go wrong, and keeps historical data so you can spot trends and plan ahead.

This section implements the concepts introduced in Chapter 2 — Monitoring.

What You'll Learn

  • Understanding the Zabbix architecture (server, agent, SNMP)
  • Installing Zabbix server on a Proxmox LXC container or bare metal
  • Adding hosts to Zabbix: OpenWrt routers (Zabbix Agent), antennas (SNMP), and Linux servers (Zabbix Agent 2) with optional Docker monitoring
  • Configuring alert triggers (device down, high CPU, disk full)
  • Setting up Telegram bot notifications for real-time alerts on problems and recoveries
  • Creating useful dashboards for network-wide visibility

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