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3 Global search

It is possible to search for various entities in the Zabbix frontend. Search input box is located in the upper right corner. Search can be started by pressing enter or clicking on the Search button.

If there is a host that starts with the entered string, a dropdown will appear, listing all such hosts:

In the search results, it is possible to collapse each individual block. Enabled hosts will be displayed in blue, disabled hosts in red.

Entities searched

It is possible to search for these entities and their properties:

  • Hosts
    • Visible name (or host name if visible name is not defined)
    • IP address
    • DNS name
  • Templates
    • Name
  • Host groups
    • Name

For entities found the following links are available:

  • Hosts
    • Monitoring
      • Latest data
      • Triggers
      • Events
      • Templated screens
    • Configuration
      • Host properties
      • Applications
      • Items
      • Triggers
      • Graphs
  • Host groups
    • Monitoring
      • Latest data
      • Triggers
      • Events
    • Configuration
      • Host group properties
      • Host group members (hosts and templates; separate links since Zabbix 2.0.2)
  • Templates
    • Configuration
      • Template properties
      • Applications
      • Items
      • Triggers
      • Graphs
      • Templated screens

Below each block the amount of entities found and displayed is shown, for example, Displaying 13 of 13 found. The amount of displayed entries in each block is limited to 100.

For all configuration entities amount of entities found is displayed in parenthesis. If no entities of that type are found, the entry is greyed out and link is not provided.