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Zabbix Manual
1 About
1 Overview of Zabbix
2 Goals and Principles
3 Installation and Upgrade Notes
4. What's new in Zabbix 1.8
5 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.1
6 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.2
7 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.3
8 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.4
9 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.5
10 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.6
11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.7
11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.8
11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.9
12 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.10
13 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.11
14 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.12
15 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.13
15 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.14
16 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.15
17 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.16
18 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.17
19 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.18
20 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.20
21 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.21
22 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.22
2 Installation
1 How to Get Zabbix
2 Requirements
3 Components
4 Installation from Source
5 Upgrading
6 Using Zabbix appliance
3 Zabbix Processes
1 Zabbix Server
2 Zabbix Proxy
3 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Standalone daemon)
4 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Inetd version)
5 Zabbix Agent (Windows)
6 Zabbix Sender (UNIX)
7 Zabbix Get (UNIX)
8 Special notes on "Include" configuration parameter
4 Configuration
1 Actions
2 Macros
3 Applications
4 Graphs
5 Media
6 Host templates
7 Host groups
8 Host and trigger dependencies
10 User Parameters
11 Windows performance counters
12 Triggers
13 Screens and Slide Shows
14 IT Services
15 User permissions
16 The Queue
17 Utilities
18 Regular expressions
19 Items
20 Frontend definitions
21 Suffixes
22 Time period specification
5 Quick Start Guide
1 Login
2 Add user
3 Email settings
4 Monitoring an agent-enabled host
5 Set up notifications
6 XML Import and Export
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 Host export
4 Host import
5 Map export and import
6 Screen export and import
7 Tutorials
1 Extending Zabbix Agents
2 Monitoring of log files
3 Remote commands
4 Monitoring of Windows Services
9 WEB Monitoring
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 WEB Scenario
4 WEB Step
5 Real life scenario
10 Log File Monitoring
1 Overview
2 How it works
11 Discovery
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 How it works
4 Network discovery rule
5 Real life scenario
12 Advanced SNMP Monitoring
1 Special OIDs
2 Use of dynamic indexes
13 Monitoring of IPMI devices
1 Goals
2 IPMI parameters
3 IPMI actions
14 Use of Proxies
1 Why use Proxy?
2 Proxy v.s. Node
3 Configuration
15 Distributed Monitoring
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 Configuration
4 Platform independence
5 Configuration of a single Node
6 Switching between nodes
7 Data flow
8 Performance considerations
16 Maintenance mode for Zabbix GUI
1 Goals
2 Configuration
3 How it looks like
17 WEB Interface
1 Creating your own theme
2 Configuration
3 Administration
4 Page parameters
18 Performance Tuning
1 Real world configuration
2 Performance tuning
19 Cookbook
1 General Recipes
2 Monitoring of Specific Applications
3 Integration
20 Troubleshooting
1 Error and warning messages
2 Sound in browsers
21 Escalations and repeated notifications
1 Overview
2 Simple messages
3 Remote commands
4 Repeated notifications
5 Delayed notifications
6 Escalate to Boss
7 Complex scenario
Zabbix API
Action
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Alert
get()
APIInfo
version()
Application
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
massAdd()
update()
DCheck
get()
DHost
delete()
get()
DRule
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
DService
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Event
acknowledge()
delete()
get()
Graph
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Graphitem
get()
History
delete()
get()
Host
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
massAdd()
massRemove()
massUpdate()
update()
Hostgroup
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
massAdd()
massRemove()
massUpdate()
update()
Image
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Item
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Maintenance
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Map
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Mediatype
create()
delete()
get()
update()
Proxy
get()
Screen
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
update()
Script
create()
delete()
execute()
get()
update()
Template
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
massAdd()
massRemove()
massUpdate()
update()
Trigger
addDependencies()
create()
delete()
deleteDependencies()
exists()
get()
update()
User
addMedia()
authenticate()
create()
delete()
deleteMedia()
get()
login()
logout()
update()
updateMedia()
updateProfile()
Usergroup
create()
delete()
exists()
get()
massAdd()
massRemove()
massUpdate()
update()
Usermacro
createGlobal()
deleteGlobal()
deleteHostMacro()
get()
massAdd()
massRemove()
massUpdate()
updateGlobal()
Example API session
Getting started with Zabbix API
Zabbix manpages
zabbix_agentd
zabbix_get
zabbix_proxy
zabbix_sender
zabbix_server
Zabbix Protocols
1 Zabbix Agent
Table of Contents
7 Host groups
7 Host groups
Host group may have zero, one or more hosts.
Host group attributes:
Parameter
Description
Group name
Unique host group name. The name must be unique within a Zabbix node.
Hosts
List of hosts of this group.
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