Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

SSH items

Let's look at the SSH items first. As a simple test, we could re-implement the same Zabbix agent parameter we did as our first user parameter, determining the number of the currently logged-in users by running who | wc -l. To try this out, we need a user account we could use to run that command, and it's probably best to create a separate account on A test host. Creating one could be as simple as the following:

# useradd -m -s /bin/bash zabbixtest
# passwd zabbixtest 

Don't create unauthorized user accounts in production systems. For remote systems, verify that the user is allowed to log in from the Zabbix server.

With the user account in place, let's create the SSH item. In the frontend, follow these steps:

1. Go to Configuration ...