Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Creating a Zabbix item in the GUI

After the user parameters are added, we need to create new items in the Zabbix server for the host. First, we will add an item to gather data for the drive temperature. Go to Configuration | Hosts | Items, and then click on Create item to open a new item page. The following screenshot shows the page with the necessary configuration:

The name of the item can be any text string. Since we are pulling data through the user parameters of the Zabbix agent, we need to select the agent as Type. The Key textbox is the most important thing here, as this is where we define what data we are pulling. The key entered, as ...