Setting up Zabbix inventory
Zabbix inventory is a feature I love, but it hasn’t had a lot of love from the Zabbix development team lately, even though it was on the roadmap for 7.0. Sorry – I still love you Zabbix developers, but if you’re reading this, feel free to put some time into the feature!
Specifically, I’m talking about this old gem of a feature request: https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-336.
The inventory feature makes it possible for us to automatically put collected data in a visual configuration management database (CMDB) such as inventory in the Zabbix frontend. I think we’ve all seen CMDB inventory systems not be updated and thus missing out on data we need once we look into the system. Zabbix inventory fixes this by getting the data from the monitored systems. Let’s get started.
Getting ready
Make sure that you log in to the Zabbix frontend and keep your SNMP-monitored host from the previous recipes ready...