Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

How items can be monitored

While that covered categories and item types, we skipped some other parameters when creating the item, so it might be helpful to learn about the basic values that will have to be set for most item types. Let's take a quick look at the fields in the item creation/editing window:

• Name: A user-level item name. This is what you will see in most places where data is shown to users.
• Type: This is the main property, affecting other fields and the way item data is gathered, as discussed previously.
• Key: This is the property that explicitly specifies what data has to be gathered for this item. It is sort of a technical name for the item. The key value must be unique per host. For certain other item types, the field that ...