Zabbix Starter Week - Day 3
Zabbix Starter Week - Day 3
Zabbix Starter Week - Day 3
•Exploring the
Frontend –
part 2
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EXPLORING THE
FRONTEND –
PART 2
INVENTORY
Host configuration
form has inventory
tab where you can
enter such details as
name, serial number,
location, responsible
person, etc.
Populating inventory
can be done
manually or
automatically
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INVENTORY
• Overview section
shows host count by
various fields of the
inventory
• Hosts section Shows
hosts that have
inventory information.
Clicking on the host's
name will reveal the
inventory details
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IN THIS REPORT, A SUMMARY OF KEY ZABBIX
SERVER AND SYSTEM DATA IS DISPLAYED
USERS WITH SUFFICIENT PERMISSIONS CAN
CONFIGURE SCHEDULED GENERATION OF PDF
VERSIONS OF THE DASHBOARDS, WHICH WILL BE
SENT BY EMAIL TO SPECIFIED RECIPIENTS.
Zabbix server time zone is used for report generation
Reports can be sent daily, weekly (on chosen days), monthly or yearly
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IN THIS REPORT, YOU CAN SEE THE TRIGGERS THAT
HAVE CHANGED THEIR STATE MOST OFTEN WITHIN
THE PERIOD OF EVALUATION, SORTED BY THE
NUMBER OF STATUS CHANGES.
IN THIS REPORT YOU CAN FIND RECORDS OF
CHANGES MADE IN THE FRONTEND AND API
Time Timestamp of the audit record.
Details Description of the resource and detailed information about the performed
activity.
IN THIS REPORT USERS CAN VIEW DETAILS OF
OPERATIONS (NOTIFICATIONS, REMOTE
COMMANDS) EXECUTED WITHIN AN ACTION.
A REPORT ON THE NUMBER
OF NOTIFICATIONS SENT
TO EACH USER IS
DISPLAYED.
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A TEMPLATE IS A SET OF ENTITIES THAT CAN BE
CONVENIENTLY APPLIED TO MULTIPLE HOSTS
INCLUDES
• items
• triggers
• graphs
• dashboards
• low-level discovery rules
• web scenarios
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TEMPLATES
Allows to easily set up and manage monitoring of hundreds or thousands of
hosts
to host
SECTION WHERE YOU CAN CONFIGURE AND MAINTAIN
HOSTS
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Configuration Tab
General Attributes
HOST CONFIGURATION
Host name Unique host name Mandatory
Visible name Name will show in the frontend If not set, will use Host name value
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IMPORTING
CAN BE IMPORTED
WHILE IMPORTING, YOU CAN
• host groups (through
Zabbix API only) Update existing
• template groups
(through Zabbix API only) Existing elements will be updated
• templates with data from the import file
• hosts
• network maps Create new
• media types
• Images Import will add new elements using
data from the import file
FORMATS SUPPORTED
Delete missing
• YAML (default) Import will remove existing elements
• XML not present in the import file
• JSON
Maintenance is used to
• Suppress problem notifications
• Suppress data collection
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SECTION WHERE YOU CAN CONFIGURE AND MAINTAIN
HOSTS
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ACTIONS
TYPES
• Trigger actions
• Discovery actions
• Autoregistration actions
• Internal actions
PROPERTIES
• Unique action name
• Conditions - Each new event is verified
against those conditions
• Operations – What do you want to happen
• Status - enabled or disabled
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EACH TYPE OF ACTION HAS ITS OWN CONDITIONS
AND OPERATIONS.
NETWORK DISCOVERY
Periodically scans the network to detect changes and
performs user specified actions.
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DISCOVERY
Name Name of the rule
Discovery by proxy If it will use proxy
IP range Range of IP addresses for discovery
Update interval How often the rule will be executed
Checks What protocols will be checked
Device uniqueness criteria
Host name Host name that will be specified for discovered host
Visible name Visible name that will be specified for discovered host
Enabled
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LOW LEVEL DISCOVERY
Let Zabbix automatically create items, triggers and graphs
on your hosts, depending on the host entities
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TYPES OF LLD
Network interfaces;
CPUs and CPU cores
SNMP OIDs
JMX objects
ODBC SQL queries
Windows services
Host interfaces In Zabbix
Custom
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ADMISTRATION