Setting up advanced triggers

Triggers in Zabbix keep getting more advanced and it might be hard to keep up. For people working with Zabbix 5.2 or older and upgrading to Zabbix 6, not only is there a new Zabbix trigger syntax but there's also a whole new array of functions.

Let's dive into setting up some more advanced triggers in Zabbix 6.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need our Zabbix server ready and we'll need one host that is monitored by a Zabbix agent with the Zabbix agent template. We'll use the items on this host to create triggers. Let's use the lar-book-agent_passive host from the previous chapter.

If you don't have this host from the previous chapters, simply hook up a new host with the default passive Linux monitoring template called Linux by Zabbix agent.

We'll also be touching on some more advanced topics that are discussed later in the book. If you don't know how to use Low-Level Discovery (LLD) for example...