Exploring the Zabbix API with JQuery

Another interesting project that we can download and check is JQZabbix. For more information about this project, you can refer to https://github.com/kodai/jqzabbix.

JQZabbix is a demo application readymade to test the Zabbix API and, sometimes, it can be useful to have it installed somewhere as it allows a simple web browser to do a JSON-RPC query against our Zabbix server without the need to write scripts.

To install the package, we need to download the package; here, we can simply clone the GitHub repository with the following command:

$ mkdir jqzabbix && cd jqzabbix
$ git clone https://github.com/kodai/jqzabbix

The project will download a demo directory contained in the jqzabbix GitHub clone. We need to create a new location that we can call jqzabbix under DocumentRoot of httpd. Usually, the document root is located at /var/www/html, but it is better to check the DocumentRoot directive under /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Running the following command...