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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

Creating users


Sooner or later, you probably want to add extra users to Zabbix. You probably don't want them to have access to all servers and you probably don't want them to have all rights either. So it is now time to show you how to create new users in Zabbix.

Getting ready...

Just as with groups, we need a working Zabbix installation and a user with super admin permissions, A normal admin account will not do this time. The standard admin account automatically created when installing Zabbix is a super admin account. It can also be handy if you have some hosts already added to you setup.

How to do it...

  1. To create a new user we go to the menu Administration | Users where we will get an overview of all existing user groups already available on the system.

  2. Next we choose Users from the dropdown menu on the top right corner of the screen and click the Create user button.

  3. In the Alias field, you will put the name that you want to use later when logging into Zabbix.

  4. In the fields Name, Surname and...

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