Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Item types

As explored previously, Zabbix gathers all its data within items. But surely, we'll want to get information in more ways than just through the Zabbix agent. What are our options? Let's have a look:

This is the item type configuration drop-down that opens when editing an item. We pretty much skipped this selection when creating our item, because the default value suited us. Let's take a quick look at the types available now:

• Zabbix agent: This is the default type. The server connects to the agent and gathers data.
• Zabbix agent (active): This can be considered the opposite of the previous type. The Zabbix agent gathers data and connects ...