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1. Introduction

1 Manual structure

2 What is Zabbix

3 Zabbix features

4 Zabbix overview

5 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.0

6 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.1

7 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.2

8 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.3

9 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.4

10 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.5

11 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.6

12 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.7

13 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.8

14 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.9

15 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.10

16 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.11

17 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.12

18 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.13

19 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.14

20 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.15

21 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.16

22 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.17

23 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.18

24 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.19

25 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.20

26 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.21

27 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.22

28 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.23

29 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.24

30 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.25

31 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.26

32 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.27

33 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.28

34 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.29

35 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.30

36 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.31

37 What's new in Zabbix 3.0.32

2. Zabbix concepts

1 Zabbix definitions

2 Server

3 Agent

4 Proxy

6 Sender

7 Get

3. Installation

3 Installation from sources

Building Windows agent binaries with/without TLS

4 Installation from packages

5 Proxy installation

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

2 Debian/Ubuntu

4 Agent installation

agent_installation.md

1 Repository installation

repository_installation.md

2 Server installation with MySQL database

server_installation_with_mysql.md

3 Server installation with PostgreSQL database

server_installation_with_postgresql.md

5 Installation from containers

6 Upgrade procedure using sources

7 Upgrade procedure using packages

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

2 Debian/Ubuntu

9 Template changes

10 Upgrade notes for 3.0.0

11 Upgrade notes for 3.0.1

12 Upgrade notes for 3.0.2

13 Upgrade notes for 3.0.3

14 Upgrade notes for 3.0.4

15 Upgrade notes for 3.0.5

16 Upgrade notes for 3.0.6

17 Upgrade notes for 3.0.7

18 Upgrade notes for 3.0.8

19 Upgrade notes for 3.0.9

20 Upgrade notes for 3.0.10

21 Upgrade notes for 3.0.11

22 Upgrade notes for 3.0.12

23 Upgrade notes for 3.0.13

24 Upgrade notes for 3.0.14

25 Upgrade notes for 3.0.15

26 Upgrade notes for 3.0.16

27 Upgrade notes for 3.0.17

28 Upgrade notes for 3.0.18

29 Upgrade notes for 3.0.19

30 Upgrade notes for 3.0.20

31 Upgrade notes for 3.0.21

32 Upgrade notes for 3.0.22

33 Upgrade notes for 3.0.23

34 Upgrade notes for 3.0.24

35 Upgrade notes for 3.0.25

36 Upgrade notes for 3.0.26

37 Upgrade notes for 3.0.27

38 Upgrade notes for 3.0.28

40 Upgrade notes for 3.0.30

41 Upgrade notes for 3.0.31

42 Upgrade notes for 3.0.32

1 Getting Zabbix

getting_zabbix.md

requirements.md

Best practices for secure Zabbix setup

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

2 Custom intervals

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

8 Predictive trigger functions

4 Events

1 Event sources

5 Visualisation

1 Graphs

1 Simple graphs

2 Custom graphs

3 Ad-hoc graphs

1 Configuring a network map

2 Host group elements

3 Link indicators

3 Screens

1 Screen elements

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

Notes on low-level discovery

15. Distributed monitoring

1 Proxies

1 Using certificates

2 Using pre-shared keys

3 Troubleshooting

1 Connection type or permission problems

2 Certificate problems

17. 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 Audit

6 Notifications

4 Configuration

3 Hosts

2 Items

3 Triggers

4 Graphs

5 Discovery rules

6 Web scenarios

5 Actions

5 Administration

1 General

2 Proxies

3 Authentication

5 Users

7 Scripts

8 Queue

1 Global notifications

2 Sound in browsers

3 Global search

4 Frontend maintenance mode

5 Page parameters

7 Creating your own theme

18. API

Appendix 1. Reference commentary

Appendix 2. Changes from 2.4 to 3.0

Method reference

API info

apiinfo.version

Action

action.get

Alert

alert.get

Application object

application.create

application.delete

application.get

application.massadd

application.update

configuration.export

configuration.import

Discovered host

Discovered host object

dhost.get

Discovered service

Discovered service object

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 item

Graph item object

Graph prototype

Graph prototype object

graphprototype.create

graphprototype.delete

graphprototype.get

graphprototype.update

History

Host

host.get

host.isreadable

host.iswritable

host.massremove

host.massupdate

Host group

Host group object

hostgroup.create

hostgroup.delete

hostgroup.isreadable

hostgroup.iswritable

hostgroup.massadd

hostgroup.massremove

hostgroup.massupdate

hostgroup.update

Host interface object

hostinterface.create

hostinterface.delete

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

Item

item.get

item.isreadable

item.iswritable

Item prototype object

itemprototype.create

itemprototype.delete

itemprototype.get

itemprototype.isreadable

itemprototype.iswritable

itemprototype.update

LLD rule

LLD rule object

discoveryrule.copy

discoveryrule.create

discoveryrule.delete

discoveryrule.get

discoveryrule.isreadable

discoveryrule.iswritable

discoveryrule.update

Maintenance object

maintenance.create

maintenance.delete

maintenance.get

maintenance.update

Map

Map object

map.create

map.delete

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.isreadable

template.iswritable

template.massadd

template.massremove

template.massupdate

template.update

Template screen

Template screen object

templatescreen.copy

templatescreen.create

templatescreen.delete

templatescreen.get

templatescreen.isreadable

templatescreen.iswritable

templatescreen.update

Template screen item

Template screen item object

templatescreenitem.get

Trend

trend.get

Trigger

trigger.adddependencies

trigger.deletedependencies

trigger.isreadable

trigger.iswritable

Trigger prototype

Trigger prototype object

triggerprototype.create

triggerprototype.delete

triggerprototype.get

triggerprototype.update

User

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.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

Value map

Value map object

valuemap.create

valuemap.delete

valuemap.update

Web scenario object

httptest.create

httptest.delete

httptest.isreadable

httptest.iswritable

httptest.update

Zabbix API changes in 3.0

1 Frequently asked questions / Troubleshooting

1 Database creation scripts

2 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows

3 Daemon configuration

1 Zabbix server

3 Zabbix agent (UNIX)

4 Zabbix agent (Windows)

5 Zabbix Java gateway

6 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 Minimum permission level for Windows agent items

6 Encoding of returned values

7 Large file support

8 Sensor

9 Notes on memtype parameter in proc.mem items

10 Notes on selecting processes in proc.mem and proc.num items

11 Implementation details of net.tcp.service and net.udp.service checks

12 Unreachable/unavailable host settings

6 Triggers

1 Supported trigger functions

7 Macros

1 Supported macros

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

Configuration

Configuration

This class is designed to export and import Zabbix configuration data.

Available methods:

configuration.export - exporting the configuration
configuration.import - importing the configuration

What’s next?

configuration.export