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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy

You're reading from   Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy Ultimate open source, real-time monitoring tool

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129047
Length 1327 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rihards Olups Rihards Olups
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Andrea Dalle Vacche Andrea Dalle Vacche
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Patrik Uytterhoeven Patrik Uytterhoeven
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Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Zabbix: Enterprise Network Montioring Made Easy
Credits
Preface
1. Getting Started with Zabbix FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Your First Notification 3. Monitoring with Zabbix Agents and Basic Protocols 4. Monitoring SNMP Devices 5. Managing Hosts, Users, and Permissions 6. Detecting Problems with Triggers 7. Acting upon Monitored Conditions 8. Simplifying Complex Configurations with Templates 9. Visualizing Data with Graphs and Maps 10. Visualizing Data with Screens and Slideshows 11. Advanced Item Monitoring 12. Automating Configuration 13. Monitoring Web Pages 14. Monitoring Windows 15. High-Level Business Service Monitoring 16. Monitoring IPMI Devices 17. Monitoring Java Applications 18. Monitoring VMware 19. Using Proxies to Monitor Remote Locations 20. Encrypting Zabbix Traffic 21. Working Closely with Data 22. Zabbix Maintenance 23. Zabbix Configuration 24. Getting Around in Zabbix 25. Groups, Users, and Permissions 26. Monitoring with Zabbix 27. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix 28. Working with Templates 29. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix 30. Monitoring VMware and Proxies 31. Autodiscovery 32. Zabbix Maintenance and API 33. Deploying Zabbix 34. Distributed Monitoring 35. High Availability and Failover 36. Collecting Data 37. Visualizing Data 38. Managing Alerts 39. Managing Templates 40. Handling External Scripts 41. Extending Zabbix 42. Integrating Zabbix Troubleshooting Being Part of the Community Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix Bibliography
Index

Linking templates to hosts


Now we'd like to link this template to our very first host, "A test host". First, let's compare item lists between the freshly created template and that host. Open Configuration | Hosts in one browser window or tab and Configuration | Templates in another. In the first, choose Linux servers in the Group dropdown, then click on Items next to A test host. In the other one, select Custom templates in the Group dropdown, then click on Items next to C_Template_Linux. Place the windows next to each other and compare the listings:

We can see here that the template has three more items than the host. Looking at the lists, we can see that the items available on the template but not the host, are both SNMP related items that we added later—Experimental SNMP trap and snmptraps, the time item Local time, and also the check for a file, Testfile exists. If the template has four items the host is missing, but in total it only has three items more, that means the host should have...

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