cannot see forest for the trees

[cevyn]

Did the install. Have all the basics working. Turned on a agent on my PC and on the zabbix UNIX server just as proof that it works. But missing something major. Have not figured out how I customize each agent. UNIX box does not run POP or FTP so Zabbix reports that. Where do I customize that to say I'm not running it. Says I'm not running Apache on zabbix server, but I am running APache2. How do I create a picture showing major boxes I want to monitor?

Feel like I'm missing some big picture item that all the details in the forum would then make sense. Hence I cannot seem to see the forest for the trees. I have looked around the various .conf file but I just don't seem to see how to customize it. I have read the manual but perhaps I have some mental block and am missing some key that would make everything obvious.

Any wisdom here to get me over the hump would be greatly appreciated.

[Calimero]

What is monitored and what triggers alerts is defined though the Web UI of Zabbix.

I assume you're using some of Zabbix' default templates.

You can disabled Items (metrics) and triggers in the Configuration section of Zabbix.

Configuration > Items > Choose host or template > You can then disable/enable/add/delete items

Same goes for the Configuration > Trigger section.

Zabbix isn't able to find apache, probably because it's looking for "httpd" processes instead of "httpd2".
Go to Configuration > Items > Templates: Linux (I guess). There must be an item with key 'proc.num[httpd]'. Edit and set to 'proc.num[httpd2]' (or whatever apache is called on your distro).