Chapter 7: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation
This chapter is going to be all about making sure that you as a Zabbix administrator are doing as little work as possible on host and item creation. We are going to learn how to perform (or perfect, maybe) automatic host creation. Check out the recipes featured here to see just what we are going to discover.
In this chapter, we will first learn how to set up Zabbix discovery with Zabbix agent and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). We will then set up active agent autoregistration. Later, we will also cover the automatic creation of Windows performance counters and Java Managements Extension (JMX) items.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Setting up Zabbix agent discovery
- Setting up Zabbix SNMP discovery
- Working with active agent autoregistration
- Using the new Windows performance counter discovery
- Discovering JMX objects
