Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

Using global search

So far, we have navigated to a host or its items and other entities by going to specific pages in the frontend and then looking up the group and host. This is a convenient enough method in smaller installations, and it's also what we will mostly use in this book. In a larger installation, navigating like this could be very time consuming; thus, a feature called global search becomes very useful. Actually, many users almost completely skip the classic navigation method and use search exclusively.

The global search field is available in the upper-right corner of the Zabbix frontend. In there, type a single letter, a. Anything entered here is matched against the beginnings of hostnames, and results are shown in a dropdown. In our ...