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Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition)

You're reading from   Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition) Learn how to monitor your large IT environments with this one-stop, comprehensive guide to the Zabbix world

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289262
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Deploying Zabbix FREE CHAPTER 2. Distributed Monitoring 3. High Availability and Failover 4. Collecting Data 5. Visualizing Data 6. Managing Alerts 7. Managing Templates 8. Handling External Scripts 9. Extending Zabbix 10. Integrating Zabbix Index

Setting up RT to better integrate with Zabbix


The two basic elements of RT are tickets and queues. The function of a ticket is to keep track of the evolution of an issue. The basic workflow of the tracks' said evolution can be summarized in the following points:

  • A ticket is created with the first description of the problem

  • An operator takes ownership of the ticket and starts working on it

  • The evolution of the problem is recorded in the ticket's history

  • After the problem's resolution, the ticket is closed and archived

All of the ticket's metadata, from its creation date to the amount of time it took to close it, from the user who created it to the operator that worked on it, and so on, is recorded and grouped with all the other tickets' metadata in order to build statistics and calculate service-level agreements.

A queue, on the other hand, is a specific collection of tickets and a way to file new tickets under different categories. You can define different queues based on the different organization...

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