8 Discovery

1. Introduction

1 Manual structure

2 What is Zabbix

3 Zabbix features

4 Zabbix overview

5 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.0

6 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.1

7 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.2

8 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.3

9 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.4

10 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.5

11 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.6

15 What's new in Zabbix 5.2.7

3. Zabbix processes

1 Server

2 Agent

3 Agent 2

4 Proxy

1 Setup from sources

2 Setup from RHEL/CentOS packages

3 Setup from Debian/Ubuntu packages

6 Sender

7 Get

8 JS

4. Installation

1 Getting Zabbix

Best practices for secure Zabbix setup

3 Installation from sources

Building Zabbix agent 2 on Windows

Building Zabbix agent on macOS

Building Zabbix agent on Windows

4 Installation from packages

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

2 Debian/Ubuntu/Raspbian

3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

4 Windows agent installation from MSI

6 Mac OS agent installation from PKG

5 Installation from containers

6 Web interface installation

Debian/Ubuntu frontend installation

7 Upgrade procedure

Upgrade from packages

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

2 Debian/Ubuntu

Upgrade from sources

9 Template changes

10 Upgrade notes for 5.2.0

11 Upgrade notes for 5.2.1

12 Upgrade notes for 5.2.2

13 Upgrade notes for 5.2.3

14 Upgrade notes for 5.2.4

15 Upgrade notes for 5.2.5

16 Upgrade notes for 5.2.6

17 Upgrade notes for 5.2.7

1 Login and configuring user

2 New host

3 New item

5 Receiving problem notification

6. Zabbix appliance

7. Configuration

1 Hosts and host groups

1 Configuring a host

2 Inventory

3 Mass update

2 Items

1 Creating an item

1 Item key format

2 Custom intervals

2 Item value preprocessing

1 Usage examples

2 Preprocessing details

3 JSONPath functionality

Escaping special characters from LLD macro values in JSONPath

4 JavaScript preprocessing

Additional JavaScript objects

5 CSV to JSON preprocessing

3 Item types

1 Zabbix agent

Windows-specific item keys

Zabbix agent 2

2 SNMP agent

1 Dynamic indexes

2 Special OIDs

3 MIB files

3 SNMP traps

4 IPMI checks

5 Simple checks

1 VMware monitoring item keys

6 Log file monitoring

7 Calculated items

8 Internal checks

9 SSH checks

10 Telnet checks

11 External checks

12 Aggregate checks

13 Trapper items

14 JMX monitoring

15 ODBC monitoring

1 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MySQL

2 Recommended UnixODBC settings for PostgreSQL

3 Recommended UnixODBC settings for Oracle

4 Recommended UnixODBC settings for MSSQL

16 Dependent items

17 HTTP agent

18 Prometheus checks

19 Script items

4 History and trends

5 User parameters

1 Extending Zabbix agents

6 Loadable modules

7 Windows performance counters

8 Mass update

9 Value mapping

10 Applications

11 Queue

12 Value cache

13 Execute now

14 Plugins

15 Restricting agent checks

3 Triggers

1 Configuring a trigger

2 Trigger expression

3 Trigger dependencies

4 Trigger severity

5 Customizing trigger severities

6 Mass update

7 Predictive trigger functions

4 Events

1 Trigger event generation

2 Other event sources

3 Manual closing of problems

5 Event correlation

1 Trigger-based event correlation

Event tags

2 Global event correlation

6 Visualization

1 Graphs

1 Simple graphs

2 Custom graphs

3 Ad-hoc graphs

4 Aggregation in graphs

2 Network maps

1 Configuring a network map

2 Host group elements

3 Link indicators

3 Screens

1 Screen elements

4 Slide shows

5 Dashboards

6 Host dashboards

7 Templates

1 Configuring a template

2 Linking/unlinking

3 Nesting

4 Mass update

8 Templates out of the box

Standardized templates for network devices

HTTP template operation

IPMI template operation

JMX template operation

ODBC template operation

Zabbix agent 2 template operation

Zabbix agent template operation

9 Notifications upon events

1 Media types

1 E-mail

2 SMS

3 Custom alertscripts

4 Webhook

Webhook script examples

2 Actions

1 Conditions

2 Operations

1 Sending message

2 Remote commands

3 Additional operations

4 Using macros in messages

3 Recovery operations

4 Update operations

5 Escalations

3 Receiving notification on unsupported items

10 Macros

1 Macro functions

2 User macros

3 User macros with context

4 Low-level discovery macros

11 Users and user groups

1 Configuring a user

2 Permissions

3 User groups

12 Storage of secrets

8. Service monitoring

9. Web monitoring

1 Web monitoring items

2 Real life scenario

10. Virtual machine monitoring

1 Virtual machine discovery key fields

11. Maintenance

12. Regular expressions

13. Problem acknowledgment

14. Configuration export/import

2 Templates

3 Hosts

5 Screens

1 Network discovery

1 Configuring a network discovery rule

2 Active agent autoregistration

3 Low-level discovery

1 Item prototypes

2 Trigger prototypes

3 Graph prototypes

4 Notes on low-level discovery

5 Discovery rules

1 Discovery of mounted filesystems

2 Discovery of network interfaces

3 Discovery of CPUs and CPU cores

4 Discovery of SNMP OIDs

5 Discovery of JMX objects

6 Discovery of IPMI sensors

7 Discovery of systemd services

8 Discovery of Windows services

9 Discovery of Windows performance counter instances

10 Discovery using WMI queries

11 Discovery using ODBC SQL queries

12 Discovery using Prometheus data

13 Discovery of block devices

14 Discovery of host interfaces in Zabbix

16. Distributed monitoring

1 Proxies

1 Using certificates

2 Using pre-shared keys