LLD is concerned with discovering entities on an individual host. Zabbix also supports a way to scan a network address range and perform some operation based on what has been discovered there—that's called network discovery.
Network discovery
Configuring a discovery rule
To see how this could work, let's have a simple discovery rule. We can discover our test systems, or we can point the discovery at another network range that is accessible to the Zabbix server.
To create a network discovery rule, execute the following:
- Navigate to Configuration | Discovery and click on Create discovery rule.
- Fill in the name and IP range as desired, and then click on New in the Checks block. Choose ICMP ping in the Check...
