1 About

- \#1 Overview of Zabbix

- \#2 Goals and Principles

- \#3 Installation and Upgrade Notes

- \#5 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.1

- \#6 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.2

- \#7 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.3

- \#8 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.4

- \#9 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.5

- \#10 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.6

- \#11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.7

- \#11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.8

- \#11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.9

- \#12 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.10

- \#13 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.11

- \#14 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.12

- \#15 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.13

- \#15 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.14

- \#16 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.15

- \#17 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.16

- \#18 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.17

- \#19 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.18

- \#20 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.20

- \#21 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.21

- \#22 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.22

4. What's new in Zabbix 1.8

- \#1 How to Get Zabbix

- \#2 Requirements

- \#3 Components

- \#4 Installation from Source

- \#5 Upgrading

- \#6 Using Zabbix appliance

3 Zabbix Processes

- \#1 Zabbix Server

- \#2 Zabbix Proxy

- \#3 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Standalone daemon)

- \#4 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Inetd version)

- \#5 Zabbix Agent (Windows)

- \#6 Zabbix Sender (UNIX)

- \#7 Zabbix Get (UNIX)

- \#8 Special notes on "Include" configuration parameter

4 Configuration

5 Quick Start Guide

- \#3 Email settings

- \#4 Monitoring an agent-enabled host

- \#5 Set up notifications

6 XML Import and Export

- \#3 Host export

- \#4 Host import

- \#5 Map export and import

- \#6 Screen export and import

- \#1 Extending Zabbix Agents

- \#2 Monitoring of log files

- \#3 Remote commands

- \#4 Monitoring of Windows Services

9 WEB Monitoring

- \#3 WEB Scenario

- \#5 Real life scenario

10 Log File Monitoring

- Overview

- \#2 How it works

- \#3 How it works

- \#4 Network discovery rule

- \#5 Real life scenario

12 Advanced SNMP Monitoring

- \#1 Special OIDs

- \#2 Use of dynamic indexes

13 Monitoring of IPMI devices

- \#2 IPMI parameters

- \#3 IPMI actions

14 Use of Proxies

- \#1 Why use Proxy?

- \#2 Proxy v.s. Node

- \#3 Configuration

15 Distributed Monitoring

- \#3 Configuration

- \#4 Platform independence

- \#5 Configuration of a single Node

- \#6 Switching between nodes

- \#7 Data flow

- \#8 Performance considerations

16 Maintenance mode for Zabbix GUI

- \#2 Configuration

- \#3 How it looks like

17 WEB Interface

- \#1 Creating your own theme

- \#2 Configuration

- \#3 Administration

-\#4 Page parameters

18 Performance Tuning

- Real world configuration

- \#2 Performance tuning

- General Recipes

- \#2 Monitoring of Specific Applications

- \#3 Integration

20 Troubleshooting

- \#1 Error and warning messages

- \#2 Sound in browsers

21 Escalations and repeated notifications

- \#2 Simple messages

- \#3 Remote commands

- \#4 Repeated notifications

- \#5 Delayed notifications

- \#6 Escalate to Boss

- \#7 Complex scenario

Zabbix API

APIInfo

version()

Action

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Alert

get()

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

massAdd()

update()

DCheck

get()

DHost

delete()

get()

DRule

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

DService

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Event

delete()

get()

Example API session

Getting started with Zabbix API

Graph

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Graphitem

get()

History

delete()

get()

Host

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

massAdd()

update()

Hostgroup

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

massAdd()

update()

Image

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Item

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Map

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Mediatype

create()

delete()

get()

update()

Proxy

get()

Screen

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

update()

Script

create()

delete()

execute()

get()

update()

Template

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

massAdd()

update()

Trigger

addDependencies()

create()

delete()

deleteDependencies()

exists()

get()

update()

User

addMedia()

create()

delete()

get()

login()

logout()

update()

updateProfile()

Usergroup

create()

delete()

exists()

get()

massAdd()

update()

Usermacro

deleteHostMacro()

get()

massAdd()

Zabbix manpages

zabbix_get

Zabbix Protocols

- \#1 Zabbix Agent

Zabbix Manual
14 Use of Proxies
- \#1 Why use Proxy?

On this page

- #1 Why use Proxy?

- #1 Why use Proxy?

Zabbix Proxy can be used for many purposes:

Offload Zabbix Server when monitoring thousands of devices
Monitor remote locations
Monitor locations having unreliable communications
Simplify maintenance of distributed monitoring

What’s next?

- \#2 Proxy v.s. Node