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1 About

1 Overview of Zabbix

2 Goals and Principles

3 Installation and Upgrade Notes

4. What's new in Zabbix 1.8

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

1 How to Get Zabbix

4 Installation from Source

5 Upgrading

6 Using Zabbix appliance

3 Zabbix Processes

1 Zabbix Server

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

1 Actions

2 Macros

4 Graphs

5 Media

6 Host templates

8 Host and trigger dependencies

10 User Parameters

11 Windows performance counters

12 Triggers

13 Screens and Slide Shows

15 User permissions

18 Regular expressions

19 Items

20 Frontend definitions

21 Suffixes

22 Time period specification

5 Quick Start Guide

1 Login

2 Add user

3 Email settings

4 Monitoring an agent-enabled host

5 Set up notifications

6 XML Import and Export

1 Goals

2 Overview

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

1 Goals

2 Overview

4 WEB Step

5 Real life scenario

10 Log File Monitoring

1 Overview

1 Goals

2 Overview

4 Network discovery rule

5 Real life scenario

12 Advanced SNMP Monitoring

2 Use of dynamic indexes

13 Monitoring of IPMI devices

1 Goals

2 IPMI parameters

14 Use of Proxies

1 Why use Proxy?

2 Proxy v.s. Node

3 Configuration

15 Distributed Monitoring

1 Goals

2 Overview

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

1 Goals

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

1 Real world configuration

2 Performance tuning

1 General Recipes

2 Monitoring of Specific Applications

20 Troubleshooting

1 Error and warning messages

2 Sound in browsers

21 Escalations and repeated notifications

1 Overview

2 Simple messages

3 Remote commands

4 Repeated notifications

5 Delayed notifications

6 Escalate to Boss

7 Complex scenario

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Example API session

Getting started with Zabbix API

Zabbix manpages

Zabbix Protocols

Table of Contents

11 Discovery

11 Discovery

goals overview how_it_works auto-discovery_rule real_life_scenario

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