Setting up Zabbix Agent discovery

A lot of Zabbix administrators use Zabbix Agent extensively and thus spend a lot of time creating Zabbix Agent hosts by hand. They do this simply because they have no knowledge of Zabbix Agent discovery or have had no time to set it up yet. No longer will this be the case—in this recipe, we will learn just how easy it is to set up Zabbix Agent discovery, and neither knowledge nor time will be an issue anymore.

Getting ready

Besides our Zabbix server, I mentioned in this chapter's introduction that we will need two clean hosts with Zabbix Agent installed: one Windows host and one Linux host. If you don't know how to install Zabbix Agent, check out Chapter 2, Setting up Zabbix Monitoring, or see the Zabbix documentation at https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/concepts/agent2.

Don't forget to install Zabbix Agent on both servers! Let's give the servers the following hostnames:

• lar-book-disc-lnx...