Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Automatically creating triggers

Creating items for all discovered entities is useful, but even looking through them would be quite a task. Luckily, LLD allows us to create triggers automatically as well. The same as with items, this is done by creating prototypes first; actual triggers will be created by the discovery process later.

To create the prototypes, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Configuration | Templates, click on Discovery next to C_Template_Linux, and then click on Trigger prototypes. In the upper-right corner, click on Create trigger prototype, and configure it as follows:

• • Name: Incoming traffic too high for {#IFNAME} on {HOST.NAME}.
  • Expression: Click on Add next to this field. In the popup, click on Select prototype, and ...