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Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook

You're reading from   Zabbix 5 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook Explore the new features of Zabbix 5 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202238
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brian van Baekel Brian van Baekel
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Zabbix and User Management 2. Chapter 2: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Working with Triggers and Alerts 4. Chapter 4: Building Your Own Structured Templates 5. Chapter 5: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting 6. Chapter 6: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation 7. Chapter 7: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies 8. Chapter 8: Integrating Zabbix with External Services 9. Chapter 9: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API 10. Chapter 10: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup 11. Chapter 11: Advanced Zabbix Database Management 12. Chapter 12: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating your first users

With our newly created user groups, we've taken our first step toward a more structured and secure Zabbix setup. The next step is to actually assign some users to the newly created user groups to make sure they are assigned our new user permissions from the group.

Getting ready

To get started, we'll need the server and the newly created user groups from the last recipe. So, let's start the configuration.

Now we know there are three departments in the company called Cloud Hoster that are going to use our Zabbix installation. We've created host groups for them but there are also users in those departments that actually want to use our installation. Let's meet them:

Figure 1.30 – Cloud Hoster users diagram

These are the users we need to configure for Cloud Hoster to use.

How to do it…

Let's start creating the users. We will start with our Networking department:

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