What's the difference in an item vs. trigger

[agentguerry]

First,

thanks for looking. I am new to zabbix, and reading through the manual, but it doesn't really say what the difference is between an "item" and a "trigger".

If one doesn't want to monitor say "IMAP" should i be disabling the item or trigger, or both?

Thank you for helping me understand the differences.

[MrKen]

If one doesn't want to monitor say "IMAP" should i be disabling the item or trigger, or both?

Disable the item. If the item is disabled then the trigger can't fire anyway. Or you can disable both - up to you.

Regarding items and triggers, see this post http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14404

HTH
MrKen

[agentguerry]

Thank you.

I found the wiki hidden around also, and this link explains a lot.

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/howto/con...nd_hosts_oh_my