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Zabbix Manual
1. Introduction
1 Frontend improvements
1 Manual structure
2 What is Zabbix
3 Zabbix features
4 Zabbix overview
5 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.0
6 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.1
7 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.2
8 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.3
9 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.4
10 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.5
11 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.6
12 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.7
13 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.8
14 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.9
15 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.10
16 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.11
17 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.12
18 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.13
19 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.14
20 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.15
21 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.16
22 What's new in Zabbix 2.0.17
2. Zabbix concepts
1 Zabbix definitions
2 Server
3 Agent
4 Proxy
5 Java gateway
6 Sender
7 Get
3. Installation
1 Getting Zabbix
2 Requirements
3 Installation from packages
4 Installation from sources
5 Known issues
6 Upgrade procedure
7 Upgrade notes for 2.0.0
8 Upgrade notes for 2.0.1
9 Upgrade notes for 2.0.2
10 Upgrade notes for 2.0.3
11 Upgrade notes for 2.0.4
12 Upgrade notes for 2.0.5
13 Upgrade notes for 2.0.6
14 Upgrade notes for 2.0.7
15 Upgrade notes for 2.0.8
16 Upgrade notes for 2.0.9
17 Upgrade notes for 2.0.10
18 Upgrade notes for 2.0.11
19 Upgrade notes for 2.0.12
20 Upgrade notes for 2.0.13
21 Upgrade notes for 2.0.14
22 Upgrade notes for 2.0.15
23 Upgrade notes for 2.0.16
24 Upgrade notes for 2.0.17
4. Quickstart
1 Login and configuring user
2 New host
3 New item
4 New trigger
5 Receiving problem notification
6 New template
5. Zabbix appliance
6. Configuration
1 Hosts and host groups
1 Configuring a host
2 Inventory
3 Mass update
2 Items
1 Creating an item
1 Item key
2 Item types
1 Zabbix agent
Windows-specific item keys
2 SNMP agent
1 Dynamic indexes
2 Special OIDs
3 SNMP traps
4 IPMI checks
5 Simple checks
6 Log file monitoring
7 Calculated items
8 Internal checks
9 SSH checks
10 Telnet checks
11 External checks
12 Aggregate checks
13 Trapper items
14 JMX monitoring
15 ODBC monitoring
3 History and trends
4 User parameters
1 Extending Zabbix agents
5 Windows performance counters
6 Mass update
7 Value mapping
8 Applications
9 Queue
3 Triggers
1 Configuring a trigger
2 Trigger expression
3 Trigger dependencies
4 Trigger severity
5 Customising trigger severities
6 Unit symbols
7 Mass update
4 Events
1 Event sources
5 Visualisation
1 Graphs
1 Simple graphs
2 Custom graphs
2 Network maps
1 Configuring a network map
2 Link indicators
3 Screens
4 Slide shows
6 Templates
1 Configuring a template
2 Linking/unlinking
3 Nesting
7 Notifications upon events
1 Media types
1 E-mail
2 SMS
3 Jabber
4 Ez Texting
5 Custom alertscripts
2 Actions
1 Operations
1 Sending message
2 Remote commands
3 Additional operations
4 Using macros in messages
2 Conditions
3 Escalations
8 Macros
1 User macros
9 Users and user groups
1 Configuring a user
2 Permissions
3 User groups
7. IT services
8. Web monitoring
1 Web monitoring items
2 Real life scenario
9. Maintenance
10. Regular expressions
11. Event acknowledgment
12. Configuration export/import
Groups
Hosts
13. Discovery
1 Network discovery
Configuring a network discovery rule
2 Active agent auto-registration
3 Low-level discovery
14. Distributed monitoring
1 Proxies
2 Nodes
15. Web interface
1 Frontend sections
1 Monitoring
1 Dashboard
2 Overview
3 Web
4 Latest data
5 Triggers
6 Events
7 Graphs
8 Screens
9 Maps
10 Discovery
11 IT services
2 Inventory
1 Overview
2 Hosts
3 Reports
1 Status of Zabbix
2 Availability report
3 Triggers top 100
4 Bar reports
4 Configuration
1 Host groups
2 Templates
3 Hosts
1 Applications
2 Items
3 Triggers
4 Graphs
5 Discovery rules
4 Maintenance
5 Web
6 Actions
7 Screens
8 Slide shows
9 Maps
10 Discovery
11 IT services
5 Administration
1 General
2 DM
3 Authentication
4 Users
5 Media types
6 Scripts
7 Audit
8 Queue
9 Notifications
10 Installation
2 User profile
1 Global notifications
2 Sound in browsers
3 Global search
4 Frontend maintenance mode
5 Definitions
6 Creating your own theme
7 Debug mode
16. Appendixes
Zabbix API
Action
> Action object
action.create
action.delete
action.exists
action.get
action.update
Alert
> Alert object
alert.get
API info
apiinfo.version
Application
> Application object
application.create
application.delete
application.exists
application.get
application.massadd
application.update
Configuration
configuration.export
configuration.import
Discovered host
> Discovered host object
dhost.exists
dhost.get
Discovered service
> Discovered service object
dservice.exists
dservice.get
Discovery check
> Discovery check object
dcheck.get
Discovery rule
> Discovery rule object
drule.create
drule.delete
drule.exists
drule.get
drule.isreadable
drule.iswritable
drule.update
Event
> Event object
event.acknowledge
event.get
Graph
> Graph object
graph.create
graph.delete
graph.exists
graph.get
graph.getobjects
graph.update
Graph item
> Graph item object
graphitem.get
Graph prototype
> Graph prototype object
graphprototype.create
graphprototype.delete
graphprototype.exists
graphprototype.get
graphprototype.getobjects
graphprototype.update
History
> History object
history.get
Host
> Host object
host.create
host.delete
host.exists
host.get
host.getobjects
host.isreadable
host.iswritable
host.massadd
host.massremove
host.massupdate
host.update
Host group
> Host group object
hostgroup.create
hostgroup.delete
hostgroup.exists
hostgroup.get
hostgroup.getobjects
hostgroup.isreadable
hostgroup.iswritable
hostgroup.massadd
hostgroup.massremove
hostgroup.massupdate
hostgroup.update
Host interface
> Host interface object
hostinterface.create
hostinterface.delete
hostinterface.exists
hostinterface.get
hostinterface.massadd
hostinterface.massremove
hostinterface.replacehostinterfaces
hostinterface.update
Icon map
> Icon map object
iconmap.create
iconmap.delete
iconmap.get
iconmap.isreadable
iconmap.iswritable
iconmap.update
Image
> Image object
image.create
image.delete
image.exists
image.get
image.getobjects
image.update
Item
> Item object
item.create
item.delete
item.exists
item.get
item.getobjects
item.isreadable
item.iswritable
item.update
Item prototype
> Item prototype object
itemprototype.create
itemprototype.delete
itemprototype.exists
itemprototype.get
itemprototype.isreadable
itemprototype.iswritable
itemprototype.update
IT service
> IT Service object
service.adddependencies
service.addtimes
service.create
service.delete
service.deletedependencies
service.deletetimes
service.get
service.getsla
service.isreadable
service.iswritable
service.update
LLD rule
> LLD rule object
discoveryrule.copy
discoveryrule.create
discoveryrule.delete
discoveryrule.exists
discoveryrule.get
discoveryrule.isreadable
discoveryrule.iswritable
discoveryrule.update
Maintenance
> Maintenance object
maintenance.create
maintenance.delete
maintenance.exists
maintenance.get
maintenance.update
Map
> Map object
map.create
map.delete
map.exists
map.get
map.getobjects
map.isreadable
map.iswritable
map.update
Media
> Media object
usermedia.get
Media type
> Media type object
mediatype.create
mediatype.delete
mediatype.get
mediatype.update
Proxy
> Proxy object
proxy.create
proxy.delete
proxy.get
proxy.isreadable
proxy.iswritable
proxy.update
Screen
> Screen object
screen.create
screen.delete
screen.exists
screen.get
screen.update
Screen item
> Screen item object
screenitem.create
screenitem.delete
screenitem.get
screenitem.isreadable
screenitem.iswritable
screenitem.update
screenitem.updatebyposition
Script
> Script object
script.create
script.delete
script.execute
script.get
script.getscriptsbyhosts
script.update
Template
> Template object
template.create
template.delete
template.exists
template.get
template.getobjects
template.isreadable
template.iswritable
template.massadd
template.massremove
template.massupdate
template.update
Template screen
> Template screen object
templatescreen.copy
templatescreen.create
templatescreen.delete
templatescreen.exists
templatescreen.get
templatescreen.isreadable
templatescreen.iswritable
templatescreen.update
Template screen item
> Template screen item object
templatescreenitem.get
Trigger
> Trigger object
trigger.adddependencies
trigger.create
trigger.delete
trigger.deletedependencies
trigger.exists
trigger.get
trigger.getobjects
trigger.isreadable
trigger.iswritable
trigger.update
Trigger prototype
> Trigger prototype object
triggerprototype.create
triggerprototype.delete
triggerprototype.get
triggerprototype.update
User
> User object
user.addmedia
user.authenticate
user.create
user.delete
user.deletemedia
user.get
user.isreadable
user.iswritable
user.login
user.logout
user.update
user.updatemedia
user.updateprofile
User group
> User group object
usergroup.create
usergroup.delete
usergroup.exists
usergroup.get
usergroup.getobjects
usergroup.isreadable
usergroup.iswritable
usergroup.massadd
usergroup.massupdate
usergroup.update
User macro
> User macro object
usermacro.create
usermacro.createglobal
usermacro.delete
usermacro.deleteglobal
usermacro.get
usermacro.update
usermacro.updateglobal
Web scenario
> Web scenario object
webcheck.create
webcheck.delete
webcheck.get
webcheck.isreadable
webcheck.iswritable
webcheck.update
Generic Zabbix API information
Zabbix API changes from 1.8 to 2.0
Zabbix API changes in 2.0
1 Frequently asked questions / Troubleshooting
2 Installation
1 Database creation scripts
2 Zabbix agent on Microsoft Windows
3 Troubleshooting installation issues
3 Daemon configuration
1 Zabbix server
2 Zabbix proxy
3 Zabbix agent (UNIX)
4 Zabbix agent (Windows)
5 Zabbix Java gateway
6 Archive: Zabbix agent (UNIX, Inetd version)
7 Special notes on "Include" parameter
4 Items
1 Items supported by platform
2 vm.memory.size parameters
3 Passive and active agent checks
4 Encoding of returned values
5 Large file support
6 Unreachable/unavailable host settings
7 Implementation details of net.tcp.service checks
5 Triggers
1 Supported trigger functions
6 Macros
1 Macros supported by location
7 Setting time periods
8 Command execution
9 Recipes for monitoring
10 Performance tuning
11 Version compatibility
Zabbix manpages
zabbix_agentd
zabbix_get
zabbix_proxy
zabbix_sender
zabbix_server
Zabbix API
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