- #2 Overview

Zabbix provides effective and very flexible network discovery functionality. Zabbix network discovery is based on the following information:

• IP ranges
• Availability of external services (FTP, SSH, WEB, POP3, IMAP, TCP, etc)
• Information received from Zabbix agent
• Information received from SNMP agent

It does NOT provide:

• Discovery of network topology

Every service and host (IP) checked by Zabbix network discovery module generates events which may be used to create rules for the following actions:

• Generating user notifications
• Adding and removing hosts
• Enabling and disabling hosts
• Adding hosts to a group
• Removing hosts from a group
• Linking hosts to a template
• Unlinking hosts from a template
• Executing remote scripts

The actions can be configured to respect host or service uptime and downtime.