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Zabbix Manual
1. Introduction
1 Manual structure
2 What is Zabbix
3 Zabbix features
4 Zabbix overview
5 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.0
6 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.1
7 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.2
8 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.3
9 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.4
10 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.5
11 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.6
12 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.7
13 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.8
14 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.9
15 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.10
16 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.11
17 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.12
18 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.13
19 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.14
20 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.15
21 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.16
22 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.17
23 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.18
24 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.19
25 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.20
26 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.21
27 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.22
28 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.23
29 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.24
30 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.25
31 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.26
32 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.27
33 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.28
34 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.29
35 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.30
36 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.31
37 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.32
2. Zabbix concepts
1 Zabbix definitions
2 Server
3 Agent
4 Proxy
5 Java gateway
6 Sender
7 Get
3. Installation
1 Getting Zabbix
2 Requirements
Best practices for secure Zabbix setup
3 Installation from sources
Building Windows agent binaries with/without TLS
4 Installation from packages
1 Repository installation
2 Server installation with MySQL database
3 Server installation with PostgreSQL database
4 Agent installation
5 Proxy installation
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS
2 Debian/Ubuntu
5 Installation from containers
6 Upgrade procedure using sources
7 Upgrade procedure using packages
1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS
2 Debian/Ubuntu
8 Known issues
9 Template changes
10 Upgrade notes for 3.0.0
11 Upgrade notes for 3.0.1
12 Upgrade notes for 3.0.2
13 Upgrade notes for 3.0.3
14 Upgrade notes for 3.0.4
15 Upgrade notes for 3.0.5
16 Upgrade notes for 3.0.6
17 Upgrade notes for 3.0.7
18 Upgrade notes for 3.0.8
19 Upgrade notes for 3.0.9
20 Upgrade notes for 3.0.10
21 Upgrade notes for 3.0.11
22 Upgrade notes for 3.0.12
23 Upgrade notes for 3.0.13
24 Upgrade notes for 3.0.14
25 Upgrade notes for 3.0.15
26 Upgrade notes for 3.0.16
27 Upgrade notes for 3.0.17
28 Upgrade notes for 3.0.18
29 Upgrade notes for 3.0.19
30 Upgrade notes for 3.0.20
31 Upgrade notes for 3.0.21
32 Upgrade notes for 3.0.22
33 Upgrade notes for 3.0.23
34 Upgrade notes for 3.0.24
35 Upgrade notes for 3.0.25
36 Upgrade notes for 3.0.26
37 Upgrade notes for 3.0.27
38 Upgrade notes for 3.0.28
40 Upgrade notes for 3.0.30
41 Upgrade notes for 3.0.31
42 Upgrade notes for 3.0.32
4. Quickstart
1 Login and configuring user
2 New host
3 New item
4 New trigger
5 Receiving problem notification
6 New template
5. Zabbix appliance
6. 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 types
1 Zabbix agent
Windows-specific item keys
2 SNMP agent
1 Dynamic indexes
2 Special OIDs
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
3 History and trends
4 User parameters
1 Extending Zabbix agents
5 Loadable modules
6 Windows performance counters
7 Mass update
8 Value mapping
9 Applications
10 Queue
11 Value cache
3 Triggers
1 Configuring a trigger
2 Trigger expression
3 Trigger dependencies
4 Trigger severity
5 Customising trigger severities
6 Unit symbols
7 Mass update
8 Predictive trigger functions
4 Events
1 Event sources
5 Visualisation
1 Graphs
1 Simple graphs
2 Custom graphs
3 Ad-hoc graphs
2 Network maps
1 Configuring a network map
2 Host group elements
3 Link indicators
3 Screens
1 Screen elements
4 Slide shows
6 Templates
1 Configuring a template
2 Linking/unlinking
3 Nesting
7 Notifications upon events
1 Media types
1 E-mail
2 SMS
3 Jabber
4 Ez Texting
5 Custom alertscripts
2 Actions
1 Operations
1 Sending message
2 Remote commands
3 Additional operations
4 Using macros in messages
2 Conditions
3 Escalations
3 Receiving notification on unsupported items
8 Macros
User macros
9 Users and user groups
1 Configuring a user
2 Permissions
3 User groups
7. IT services
8. Web monitoring
1 Web monitoring items
2 Real life scenario
9. Virtual machine monitoring
Virtual machine discovery key fields
10. Maintenance
11. Regular expressions
12. Event acknowledgement
13. Configuration export/import
Groups
Hosts
14. Discovery
1 Network discovery
Configuring a network discovery rule
2 Active agent auto-registration
3 Low-level discovery
Notes on low-level discovery
15. Distributed monitoring
1 Proxies
16. Encryption
1 Using certificates
2 Using pre-shared keys
3 Troubleshooting
1 Connection type or permission problems
2 Certificate problems
3 PSK problems
17. Web interface
1 Frontend sections
1 Monitoring
1 Dashboard
2 Overview
3 Web
4 Latest data
5 Triggers
6 Events
7 Graphs
8 Screens
9 Maps
10 Discovery
11 IT services
2 Inventory
1 Overview
2 Hosts
3 Reports
1 Status of Zabbix
2 Availability report
3 Triggers top 100
4 Audit
5 Action log
6 Notifications
4 Configuration
1 Host groups
2 Templates
3 Hosts
1 Applications
2 Items
3 Triggers
4 Graphs
5 Discovery rules
6 Web scenarios
4 Maintenance
5 Actions
6 Discovery
7 IT services
5 Administration
1 General
2 Proxies
3 Authentication
4 User groups
5 Users
6 Media types
7 Scripts
8 Queue
2 User profile
1 Global notifications
2 Sound in browsers
3 Global search
4 Frontend maintenance mode
5 Page parameters
6 Definitions
7 Creating your own theme
8 Debug mode
18. API
Method reference
Action
> Action object
action.create
action.delete
action.get
action.update
Alert
> Alert object
alert.get
API info
apiinfo.version
Application
> Application object
application.create
application.delete
application.get
application.massadd
application.update
Configuration
configuration.export
configuration.import
Discovered host
> Discovered host object
dhost.get
Discovered service
> Discovered service object
dservice.get
Discovery check
> Discovery check object
dcheck.get
Discovery rule
> Discovery rule object
drule.create
drule.delete
drule.get
drule.isreadable
drule.iswritable
drule.update
Event
> Event object
event.acknowledge
event.get
Graph
> Graph object
graph.create
graph.delete
graph.get
graph.update
Graph item
> Graph item object
graphitem.get
Graph prototype
> Graph prototype object
graphprototype.create
graphprototype.delete
graphprototype.get
graphprototype.update
History
> History object
history.get
Host
> Host object
host.create
host.delete
host.get
host.isreadable
host.iswritable
host.massadd
host.massremove
host.massupdate
host.update
Host group
> Host group object
hostgroup.create
hostgroup.delete
hostgroup.get
hostgroup.isreadable
hostgroup.iswritable
hostgroup.massadd
hostgroup.massremove
hostgroup.massupdate
hostgroup.update
Host interface
> Host interface object
hostinterface.create
hostinterface.delete
hostinterface.get
hostinterface.massadd
hostinterface.massremove
hostinterface.replacehostinterfaces
hostinterface.update
Host prototype
> Host prototype object
hostprototype.create
hostprototype.delete
hostprototype.get
hostprototype.isreadable
hostprototype.iswritable
hostprototype.update
Icon map
> Icon map object
iconmap.create
iconmap.delete
iconmap.get
iconmap.isreadable
iconmap.iswritable
iconmap.update
Image
> Image object
image.create
image.delete
image.get
image.update
Item
> Item object
item.create
item.delete
item.get
item.isreadable
item.iswritable
item.update
Item prototype
> Item prototype object
itemprototype.create
itemprototype.delete
itemprototype.get
itemprototype.isreadable
itemprototype.iswritable
itemprototype.update
IT service
> IT Service object
service.adddependencies
service.addtimes
service.create
service.delete
service.deletedependencies
service.deletetimes
service.get
service.getsla
service.isreadable
service.iswritable
service.update
LLD rule
> LLD rule object
discoveryrule.copy
discoveryrule.create
discoveryrule.delete
discoveryrule.get
discoveryrule.isreadable
discoveryrule.iswritable
discoveryrule.update
Maintenance
> Maintenance object
maintenance.create
maintenance.delete
maintenance.get
maintenance.update
Map
> Map object
map.create
map.delete
map.get
map.isreadable
map.iswritable
map.update
Media
> Media object
usermedia.get
Media type
> Media type object
mediatype.create
mediatype.delete
mediatype.get
mediatype.update
Proxy
> Proxy object
proxy.create
proxy.delete
proxy.get
proxy.isreadable
proxy.iswritable
proxy.update
Screen
> Screen object
screen.create
screen.delete
screen.get
screen.update
Screen item
> Screen item object
screenitem.create
screenitem.delete
screenitem.get
screenitem.isreadable
screenitem.iswritable
screenitem.update
screenitem.updatebyposition
Script
> Script object
script.create
script.delete
script.execute
script.get
script.getscriptsbyhosts
script.update
Template
> Template object
template.create
template.delete
template.get
template.isreadable
template.iswritable
template.massadd
template.massremove
template.massupdate
template.update
Template screen
> Template screen object
templatescreen.copy
templatescreen.create
templatescreen.delete
templatescreen.get
templatescreen.isreadable
templatescreen.iswritable
templatescreen.update
Template screen item
> Template screen item object
templatescreenitem.get
Trend
> Trend object
trend.get
Trigger
> Trigger object
trigger.adddependencies
trigger.create
trigger.delete
trigger.deletedependencies
trigger.get
trigger.isreadable
trigger.iswritable
trigger.update
Trigger prototype
> Trigger prototype object
triggerprototype.create
triggerprototype.delete
triggerprototype.get
triggerprototype.update
User
> User object
user.addmedia
user.checkAuthentication
user.create
user.delete
user.deletemedia
user.get
user.isreadable
user.iswritable
user.login
user.logout
user.update
user.updatemedia
user.updateprofile
User group
> User group object
usergroup.create
usergroup.delete
usergroup.get
usergroup.isreadable
usergroup.iswritable
usergroup.massadd
usergroup.massupdate
usergroup.update
User macro
> User macro object
usermacro.create
usermacro.createglobal
usermacro.delete
usermacro.deleteglobal
usermacro.get
usermacro.update
usermacro.updateglobal
Value map
> Value map object
valuemap.create
valuemap.delete
valuemap.get
valuemap.update
Web scenario
> Web scenario object
httptest.create
httptest.delete
httptest.get
httptest.isreadable
httptest.iswritable
httptest.update
Appendix 1. Reference commentary
Appendix 2. Changes from 2.4 to 3.0
Zabbix API changes in 3.0
19. Appendixes
1 Frequently asked questions / Troubleshooting
2 Installation
1 Database creation scripts
2 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows
3 Daemon configuration
1 Zabbix server
2 Zabbix proxy
3 Zabbix agent (UNIX)
4 Zabbix agent (Windows)
5 Zabbix Java gateway
6 Special notes on "Include" parameter
4 Protocols
1 Zabbix sender protocol
2 Zabbix agent protocol
3 Header and data length
5 Items
1 Items supported by platform
2 vm.memory.size parameters
3 Passive and active agent checks
4 Trapper items
5 Minimum permission level for Windows agent items
6 Encoding of returned values
7 Large file support
8 Sensor
9 Notes on memtype parameter in proc.mem items
10 Notes on selecting processes in proc.mem and proc.num items
11 Implementation details of net.tcp.service and net.udp.service checks
12 Unreachable/unavailable host settings
6 Triggers
1 Supported trigger functions
7 Macros
1 Supported macros
8 Setting time periods
9 Command execution
10 Recipes for monitoring
11 Performance tuning
12 Version compatibility
13 Database error handling
14 Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows
15 Other issues
Zabbix manpages
zabbix_agentd
zabbix_get
zabbix_proxy
zabbix_sender
zabbix_server
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