Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

The trigger-and-item relationship

You might have noticed how items in Zabbix do not contain any configuration for the quality of the data—if the CPU load values arrive, the item does not care whether they are 0 or 500. Any definition of a problem condition happens in a trigger, whether it's a simple threshold or something more complex.

And when we created this trigger, we could click on any of the Triggers links, but we paid attention to the host selected in the drop-downs when choosing the item. It actually does not matter which of those Triggers links we click on, as long as the proper host is selected in that popup, or we manually enter the correct host name.

A trigger does not belong to a host like an item does. A trigger is associated ...