August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
754 pages
18h 10m
English
Looking at values and graphs on the frontend is nice and useful, but there are cases when extra information might be needed right away, or there might be a need to manually invoke an action, such as starting an upgrade process, rebooting the system, or performing some other administrative task. Zabbix allows us to execute commands directly from the frontend—this feature is called global scripts. Let's see what is available out of the box—navigate to Monitoring | Events and click on the host name in any of the entries:

The second part of this menu has convenience links to various sections in the frontend. The first part, labeled SCRIPTS ...
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