1. Introduction

1 Manual structure

2 What is Zabbix

3 Zabbix features

4 Zabbix overview

5 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.0

6 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.1

7 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.2

8 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.3

9 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.4

10 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.5

11 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.6

12 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.7

13 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.8

14 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.9

15 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.10

16 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.11

17 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.12

18 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.13

19 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.15

20 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.16

21 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.17

22 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.18

23 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.19

24 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.20

25 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.21

26 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.22

27 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.23

28 What's new in Zabbix 2.2.24

2. Zabbix concepts

1 Zabbix definitions

2 Server

3 Agent

4 Proxy

6 Sender

7 Get

3. Installation

1 Getting Zabbix

Best practices for secure Zabbix setup

3 Installation from packages

4 Installation from sources

5 Upgrade procedure

7 Template changes

8 Upgrade notes for 2.2.0

9 Upgrade notes for 2.2.1

10 Upgrade notes for 2.2.2

11 Upgrade notes for 2.2.3

12 Upgrade notes for 2.2.4

13 Upgrade notes for 2.2.5

14 Upgrade notes for 2.2.6

15 Upgrade notes for 2.2.7

16 Upgrade notes for 2.2.8

17 Upgrade notes for 2.2.9

18 Upgrade notes for 2.2.10

19 Upgrade notes for 2.2.11

20 Upgrade notes for 2.2.12

21 Upgrade notes for 2.2.13

22 Upgrade notes for 2.2.14

23 Upgrade notes for 2.2.15

24 Upgrade notes for 2.2.16

25 Upgrade notes for 2.2.17

26 Upgrade notes for 2.2.18

27 Upgrade notes for 2.2.19

28 Upgrade notes for 2.2.20

29 Upgrade notes for 2.2.21

30 Upgrade notes for 2.2.22

31 Upgrade notes for 2.2.23

1 Login and configuring user

2 New host

3 New item

5 Receiving problem notification

5. Zabbix appliance

6. Configuration

1 Hosts and host groups

1 Configuring a host

2 Items

1 Creating an item

1 Item key format

Windows-specific item keys

1 Dynamic indexes

5 Simple checks

1 VMware monitoring item keys

6 Log file monitoring

7 Calculated items

8 Internal checks

10 Telnet checks

11 External checks

12 Aggregate checks

13 Trapper items

14 JMX monitoring

15 ODBC monitoring

3 History and trends

4 User parameters

1 Extending Zabbix agents

5 Loadable modules

6 Windows performance counters

8 Value mapping

10 Queue

3 Triggers

1 Configuring a trigger

2 Trigger expression

3 Trigger dependencies

4 Trigger severity

5 Customising trigger severities

4 Events

1 Event sources

5 Visualisation

1 Graphs

1 Simple graphs

2 Custom graphs

1 Configuring a network map

2 Host group elements

3 Link indicators

3 Screens

1 Configuring a template

2 Linking/unlinking

3 Nesting

7 Notifications upon events

1 E-mail

2 SMS

3 Jabber

5 Custom alertscripts

2 Actions

1 Sending message

2 Remote commands

3 Additional operations

4 Using macros in messages

3 Receiving notification on unsupported items

8 Macros

9 Users and user groups

1 Configuring a user

8. Web monitoring

1 Web monitoring items

2 Real life scenario

9. Virtual machine monitoring

Virtual machine discovery key fields

10. Maintenance

11. Regular expressions

12. Event acknowledgement

13. Configuration export/import

Groups

Hosts

1 Network discovery

Configuring a network discovery rule

2 Active agent auto-registration

3 Low-level discovery

15. Distributed monitoring

1 Proxies

2 Nodes

16. 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

6 Web scenarios

5 Actions

6 Screens

8 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

5 Page parameters

7 Creating your own theme

17. API

Appendix 1. Reference commentary

Appendix 2. Changes from 2.0 to 2.2

Method reference

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

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

Host prototype object

hostprototype.create

hostprototype.delete

hostprototype.get

hostprototype.isreadable

hostprototype.iswritable

hostprototype.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.checkAuthentication

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

httptest.create

httptest.delete

httptest.isreadable

httptest.iswritable

httptest.update

webcheck.create

webcheck.delete

webcheck.isreadable

webcheck.iswritable

webcheck.update

Zabbix API changes in 2.2

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

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

1 Zabbix sender protocol

2 Zabbix agent protocol

3 Header and data length

5 Items

1 Items supported by platform

2 vm.memory.size parameters

3 Passive and active agent checks

4 Trapper items

5 Encoding of returned values

6 Large file support

7 Sensor

8 Implementation details of net.tcp.service checks

9 Unreachable/unavailable host settings

6 Triggers

1 Supported trigger functions

7 Macros

1 Macros supported by location

8 Setting time periods

9 Command execution

10 Recipes for monitoring

11 Performance tuning

12 Version compatibility

13 Database error handling

14 Zabbix sender dynamic link library for Windows

15 Other issues

Zabbix manpages

zabbix_get

On this page

webcheck.update

webcheck.update

This method is a deprecated alias of httptest.update.

What’s next?

Zabbix API changes in 2.2