Creating template items

Let’s get started with finally creating some real template items because, in the end, items are what it is all about in Zabbix. Without items, we don’t have data, and without data, we do not have anything to work with in our monitoring system.

Getting ready

Now, moving along, we are going to need our Zabbix server and a host that we can monitor with SNMP. In Chapter 3, Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring, we monitored a host with SNMP, so we will use this host again. We’ll also use the Zabbix template from the previous recipes.

How to do it…

1. First of all, let’s log in to our Zabbix server command-line interface (CLI) and enter snmpwalk, with the following command:

   snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u snmpv3user -a SHA -A "my_authpass" -x AES -X "my_privpass" 10.16.16.153 .1

   Make sure to change the IP address 10.16.16.153 to your own value. We will receive an answer such as this:

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