Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Importing images

When configuring network maps, we had a chance to upload our own icons. It is highly inefficient to upload a lot of images one by one. One could script the process using a utility such as curl, but that requires a new connection to the frontend for every image and could break if the Zabbix interface is changed in future versions. Images are supported in XML import, though, and we can also have a file with just the images. We could write our own script for this, but there is already a script shipped with Zabbix—look for the png_to_xml.sh script in the misc/images directory. This script accepts two parameters—the directory where the images are found and the output filename. For example, if we had images in a directory called ...