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Zabbix Cookbook

You're reading from   Zabbix Cookbook Over 70 hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397586
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Patrik Uytterhoeven Patrik Uytterhoeven
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Zabbix Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Around in Zabbix 3. Groups, Users, and Permissions 4. Monitoring with Zabbix 5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix 6. Working with Templates 7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix 8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies 9. Autodiscovery 10. Zabbix Maintenance and API A. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix Index

Trigger constructor


Of course, building triggers is nice but it would not be helpful if we had to memorize all possible functions. For this, we can make use of the trigger constructor in Zabbix. The constructor will show us a list where we can choose from and easily modify it to our needs.

Getting ready

To be able to do this recipe, you need a Zabbix server with super administrator access such as the standard admin account that came with the installation. We also need a network device that we can monitor in Zabbix.

How to do it...

  1. Our first step is to create a simple check. Our simple check will launch a ping command to our host. As host, you can choose any network device that is pingable. If you don't know how to do this, I suggest you go back to Chapter 4, Monitoring with Zabbix and check out the recipe, Simple checks. Just a basic ping check will do. There is no need to add special options to the item.

  2. Go to your host. This can be done from the menu Configuration | Hosts and click there on...

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