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1. Introduction

- Frontend improvements

- \#1 Manual structure

-\#2 What is Zabbix

-\#3 Zabbix features

-\#4 Zabbix overview

-\#5 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.0

-\#6 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.1

-\#7 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.2

-\#8 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.3

-\#9 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.4

-\#10 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.5

-\#11 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.6

-\#12 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.7

-\#13 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.8

-\#14 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.9

-\#15 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.10

-\#16 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.11

-\#17 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.12

-\#18 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.13

-\#19 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.14

-\#20 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.15

-\#21 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.16

-\#22 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.17

2. Zabbix concepts

- \#5 Java gateway

- \#7 Get

1 Zabbix definitions

3. Installation

- \#1 Getting Zabbix

- \#2 Requirements

3 Installation from packages

4 Installation from sources

6 Upgrade procedure

7 Upgrade notes for 2.0.0

8 Upgrade notes for 2.0.1

9 Upgrade notes for 2.0.2

10 Upgrade notes for 2.0.3

11 Upgrade notes for 2.0.4

12 Upgrade notes for 2.0.5

13 Upgrade notes for 2.0.6

14 Upgrade notes for 2.0.7

15 Upgrade notes for 2.0.8

16 Upgrade notes for 2.0.9

17 Upgrade notes for 2.0.10

18 Upgrade notes for 2.0.11

19 Upgrade notes for 2.0.12

20 Upgrade notes for 2.0.13

21 Upgrade notes for 2.0.14

22 Upgrade notes for 2.0.15

23 Upgrade notes for 2.0.16

24 Upgrade notes for 2.0.17

1 Login and configuring user

2 New host

3 New item

5 Receiving problem notification

5. Zabbix appliance

6. Configuration

- \#1 Creating an item

- \#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

- \#6 Log file monitoring

- \#7 Calculated items

- \#8 Internal checks

- \#9 SSH checks

- \#10 Telnet checks

- \#11 External checks

- \#14 JMX monitoring

- \#15 ODBC monitoring

12 Aggregate checks

13 Trapper items

- \#3 History and trends

- \#4 User parameters

1 Extending Zabbix agents

- \#5 Windows performance counters

- \#6 Mass update

- \#7 Value mapping

9 Queue

- \#6 Unit symbols

- \#7 Mass update

1 Configuring a trigger

2 Trigger expression

3 Trigger dependencies

4 Trigger severity

5 Customising trigger severities

- \#1 Event sources

- \#5 Visualisation

1 Graphs

- \#1 Simple graphs

- \#2 Custom graphs

- \#1 Configuring a network map

- \#2 Link indicators

3 Screens

- \#6 Templates

- \#1 Configuring a template

- \#2 Linking/unlinking

- \#7 Notifications upon events

1 E-mail

2 SMS

3 Jabber

5 Custom alertscripts

2 Actions

- \#1 Operations

1 Sending message

2 Remote commands

3 Additional operations

4 Using macros in messages

- \#2 Conditions

- \#9 Users and user groups

1 Configuring a user

1 Hosts and host groups

- \#1 Configuring a host

- \#3 Mass update

8. Web monitoring

1 Web monitoring items

2 Real life scenario

10. Regular expressions

11. Event acknowledgment

12. Configuration export/import

Groups

Hosts

- \#3 Low-level discovery

1 Network discovery

Configuring a network discovery rule

2 Active agent auto-registration

14. Distributed monitoring

15. Web interface

1 Frontend sections

2 Overview

3 Web

5 Triggers

6 Events

7 Graphs

8 Screens

9 Maps

1 Overview

2 Hosts

3 Reports

1 Status of Zabbix

2 Availability report

3 Triggers top 100

4 Configuration

3 Hosts

2 Items

3 Triggers

4 Graphs

5 Discovery rules

5 Web

6 Actions

7 Screens

9 Maps

5 Administration

1 General

2 DM

3 Authentication

4 Users

6 Scripts

7 Audit

8 Queue

9 Notifications

10 Installation

1 Global notifications

2 Sound in browsers

3 Global search

4 Frontend maintenance mode

6 Creating your own theme

1 Frequently asked questions / Troubleshooting

1 Database creation scripts

2 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows

3 Troubleshooting installation issues

3 Daemon configuration

- \#1 Zabbix server

- \#2 Zabbix proxy

- \#3 Zabbix agent (UNIX)

- \#4 Zabbix agent (Windows)

- \#5 Zabbix Java gateway

- \#6 Archive: Zabbix agent (UNIX, Inetd version)

- \#7 Special notes on "Include" parameter

4 Items

1 Items supported by platform

2 vm.memory.size parameters

3 Passive and active agent checks

4 Encoding of returned values

5 Large file support

6 Unreachable/unavailable host settings

7 Implementation details of net.tcp.service checks

5 Triggers

- \#1 Supported trigger functions

6 Macros

- \#1 Macros supported by location

7 Setting time periods

8 Command execution

9 Recipes for monitoring

10 Performance tuning

11 Version compatibility

Zabbix API

API info

apiinfo.version

Action

action.get

Alert

alert.get

Application object

application.create

application.delete

application.exists

application.get

application.massadd

application.update

configuration.export

configuration.import

Discovered host

Discovered host object

dhost.get

Discovered service

Discovered service object

dservice.exists

Discovery check

Discovery check object

dcheck.get

Discovery rule object

drule.get

drule.isreadable

drule.iswritable

Event

event.acknowledge

event.get

Generic Zabbix API information

Graph

graph.get

graph.getobjects

Graph item

Graph item object

Graph prototype

Graph prototype object

graphprototype.create

graphprototype.delete

graphprototype.exists

graphprototype.get

graphprototype.getobjects

graphprototype.update

History

Host

host.get

host.getobjects

host.isreadable

host.iswritable

host.massremove

host.massupdate

Host group

Host group object

hostgroup.create

hostgroup.delete

hostgroup.exists

hostgroup.getobjects

hostgroup.isreadable

hostgroup.iswritable

hostgroup.massadd

hostgroup.massremove

hostgroup.massupdate

hostgroup.update

Host interface object

hostinterface.create

hostinterface.delete

hostinterface.exists

hostinterface.get

hostinterface.massadd

hostinterface.massremove

hostinterface.replacehostinterfaces

hostinterface.update

IT service

IT Service object

service.adddependencies

service.addtimes

service.deletedependencies

service.deletetimes

service.isreadable

service.iswritable

Icon map

Icon map object

iconmap.isreadable

iconmap.iswritable

Image

image.get

image.getobjects

Item

item.get

item.getobjects

item.isreadable

item.iswritable

Item prototype object

itemprototype.create

itemprototype.delete

itemprototype.exists

itemprototype.get

itemprototype.isreadable

itemprototype.iswritable

itemprototype.update

LLD rule

LLD rule object

discoveryrule.copy

discoveryrule.create

discoveryrule.delete

discoveryrule.exists

discoveryrule.get

discoveryrule.isreadable

discoveryrule.iswritable

discoveryrule.update

Maintenance object

maintenance.create

maintenance.delete

maintenance.exists

maintenance.get

maintenance.update

Map

Map object

map.create

map.delete

map.exists

map.get

map.update

Media

Media type

Media type object

mediatype.create

mediatype.delete

mediatype.update

Proxy

proxy.get

proxy.isreadable

proxy.iswritable

Screen

screen.get

Screen item object

screenitem.create

screenitem.delete

screenitem.isreadable

screenitem.iswritable

screenitem.update

screenitem.updatebyposition

Script

script.get

script.getscriptsbyhosts

Template

Template object

template.create

template.delete

template.exists

template.getobjects

template.isreadable

template.iswritable

template.massadd

template.massremove

template.massupdate

template.update

Template screen

Template screen object

templatescreen.copy

templatescreen.create

templatescreen.delete

templatescreen.exists

templatescreen.get

templatescreen.isreadable

templatescreen.iswritable

templatescreen.update

Template screen item

Template screen item object

templatescreenitem.get

Trigger

trigger.adddependencies

trigger.deletedependencies

trigger.getobjects

trigger.isreadable

trigger.iswritable

Trigger prototype

Trigger prototype object

triggerprototype.create

triggerprototype.delete

triggerprototype.get

triggerprototype.update

User

user.authenticate

user.deletemedia

user.get

user.isreadable

user.iswritable

user.login

user.updatemedia

user.updateprofile

User group

User group object

usergroup.create

usergroup.delete

usergroup.exists

usergroup.getobjects

usergroup.isreadable

usergroup.iswritable

usergroup.massadd

usergroup.massupdate

usergroup.update

User macro

User macro object

usermacro.create

usermacro.createglobal

usermacro.delete

usermacro.deleteglobal

usermacro.update

usermacro.updateglobal

Web scenario object

webcheck.create

webcheck.delete

webcheck.isreadable

webcheck.iswritable

webcheck.update

Zabbix API changes from 1.8 to 2.0

Zabbix API changes in 2.0

Zabbix manpages

zabbix_get

Zabbix API

On this page

API info

API info

This class is designed to retrieve meta information about the API.

Available methods:\

apiinfo.version - retrieving the version of the Zabbix API

What’s next?

apiinfo.version