Overrides Templates

[ramiroelliot]

I’m currently working on setting up Zabbix, and I'm facing an issue with linked templates. I have a Windows template linked to another template that contains customizations. However, I’ve noticed that when I modify an item in the parent template, the changes are also applied to the other template and propagate down to the hosts. This is causing my customizations to be overwritten, which I want to avoid.

I want to keep the templates linked while still being able to apply specific customizations, but without the risk of losing these changes when the parent template is updated. How can I achieve this, and what are the best practices to avoid overwriting customized items in linked templates?

[markfree]

I only link templates when I want to keep the parent template updated, like OotB templates, and have many hosts that require minor customizations, such as macros.

Can you unlink your templates and work with them separately? This way, changes in one template will not affect the other.