Grabbing data from the frontend is quick and simple, but this method is unsuitable for large volumes of data and is hard to automate—parsing the frontend pages can be done, but isn't the most efficient way of obtaining data. Another way to get to the data would be to directly query the database.
We'll look at the Zabbix API a bit later. It's suggested to use the API unless there are performance issues.
Let's find out how historical data is stored. Launch the MySQL command-line client (simply called mysql, usually available in the path variable) and connect to the zabbix database as the zabbix user:
$ mysql -u zabbix -p zabbix
When prompted, enter the zabbix user's password (which you can remind yourself of by looking ...
