1 Configuring a template

Overview

Configuring a template requires that you first create a template by defining its general parameters and then you add entities (items, triggers, graphs, etc.) to it.

Creating a template

To create a template, do the following:

• Go to Configuration → Templates
• Click on Create template
• Edit template attributes

The Templates tab contains general template attributes.

All mandatory input fields are marked with a red asterisk.

Template attributes:

The Tags tab allows you to define template-level tags. All problems of hosts linked to this template will be tagged with the values entered here.

User macros, {INVENTORY.*} macros, {HOST.HOST}, {HOST.NAME}, {HOST.CONN}, {HOST.DNS}, {HOST.IP}, {HOST.PORT} and {HOST.ID} macros are supported in tags.

The Macros tab allows you to define template-level user macros as a name-value pairs. Note that macro values can be kept as plain text, secret text, or Vault secret. Adding a description is also supported.

You may also view here macros from linked templates and global macros if you select the Inherited and template macros option. That is where all defined user macros for the template are displayed with the value they resolve to as well as their origin.

For convenience, links to respective templates and global macro configuration are provided. It is also possible to edit a nested template/global macro on the template level, effectively creating a copy of the macro on the template.

The Value mapping tab allows to configure human-friendly representation of item data in value mappings.

Buttons:

	Add the template. The added template should appear in the list.
	Update the properties of an existing template.
	Create another template based on the properties of the current template, including the entities (items, triggers, etc) inherited from linked templates.
	Create another template based on the properties of the current template, including the entities (items, triggers, etc) both inherited from linked templates and directly attached to the current template.
	Delete the template; entities of the template (items, triggers, etc) remain with the linked hosts.
	Delete the template and all its entities from linked hosts.
	Cancel the editing of template properties.

With a template created, it is time to add some entities to it.

Adding items, triggers, graphs

To add items to the template, do the following:

• Go to Configuration → Hosts (or Templates)
• Click on Items in the row of the required host/template
• Mark the checkboxes of items you want to add to the template
• Click on Copy below the item list
• Select the template (or group of templates) the items should be copied to and click on Copy

All the selected items should be copied to the template.

Adding triggers and graphs is done in a similar fashion (from the list of triggers and graphs respectively), again, keeping in mind that they can only be added if the required items are added first.

Adding dashboards

To add dashboards to a template in Configuration → Templates, do the following:

• Click on Dashboards in the row of the template
• Configure a dashboard following the guidelines of configuring dashboards

Configuring low-level discovery rules

See the low-level discovery section of the manual.

Adding web scenarios

To add web scenarios to a template in Configuration → Templates, do the following:

• Click on Web in the row of the template
• Configure a web scenario following the usual method of configuring web scenarios

Creating a template group

To create a template group in Zabbix frontend, do the following:

1. Go to: Data collection → Template groups.
2. Click on Create template group in the upper right corner of the screen.
3. Enter the group name in the form.

To create a nested template group, use the '/' forward slash separator, for example Linux servers/Databases/MySQL. You can create this group even if none of the two parent template groups (Linux servers/Databases/) exist. In this case creating these parent template groups is up to the user; they will not be created automatically.
Leading and trailing slashes, several slashes in a row are not allowed. Escaping of '/' is not supported.

Once the group is created, you can click on the group name in the list to edit group name, clone the group or set additional option:

Apply permissions to all subgroups - mark this checkbox and click on Update to apply the same level of permissions to all nested template groups. For user groups that may have had differing permissions assigned to nested template groups, the permission level of the parent template group will be enforced on the nested groups. This is a one-time option that is not saved in the database.

Permissions to nested template groups:

• When creating a child template group to an existing parent template group, user group permissions to the child are inherited from the parent (for example, when creating Databases/MySQL if Databases already exists).
• When creating a parent template group to an existing child template group, no permissions to the parent are set (for example, when creating Databases if Databases/MySQL already exists).