How to use Zabbix 6.2 in general

[ReliablyUnreliable]

Hi everyone,

I just installed Zabbix 6.2 on my computer today to test this out hoping to replace Nagios XI and I would like to get some ideas of how people use Zabbix.

To me it is very complex to set monitoring for devices and get desired alert compared to Nagios.

for example, in Nagios, I can add a network device and during this process Nagios searches all the available interfaces and services to be monitored and I can select which I want to monitor while on Zabbix I can use a template (for example Interfaces Simple by SNMP) to monitor a network device and it adds all the discovered interfaces and services which is great but this auto discovery runs every hour or something like that and even I delete some of unnecessary items, these deleted items would come back as items.

Maybe because I am used to Nagios, I just want to have items which I want to monitor on my dashboard but seems that is almost impossible?
Do people just ignore these unnecessary items and set up a trigger for the most important items and focus on the triggers?


Regards.
Tats

[slinuxadm]

Hi Tats,

I suggest the following:

• Export the template you are using to monitor your device(s)
• Modify the exported template to only include the items/checks/alarms etc. that you are interested in
• Import the modified template with a new name
• Modify the Hosts (your devices) to use the newly imported template

-slinuxadm

[cyber]

OOB templates are not perfect, may not suit everyone. You should modify them according to your needs. For example modify filters to exclude interfaces you don't need etc... There are options in template to do so .. a bit of messing around with template macros.

[guille.rodriguez]

In my setup (work setup) we monitor all switches, firewalls, linux and windows....

For example for switches if 1 port is disconnected (enable but no link) Zabbix will fire a trigger, so if you want to avoid this trigger, just disable that port. If you can't disable because it's used in working ours... you can add text to the port in switch that starts with some name or tag, and then modify template to ignore ports that name starts with that tag...

Otherwise I modified the OOB Windows Template because it generates a lot of unseful data (for example, services...). When I want to monitor some service, I create an specific item.

Another example, I modified the Zabbix Agent template because Zabbix Agent version comes as String 6.2.7 but I cant do a trigger that fires if ZabbixAgentVersion < 6.0, so I made a preprocessing and 6.2.7 becomes 6.27. This way I can detect easy computers with old Zabbix Agent Version.