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Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition
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Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

by Rihards Olups
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
754 pages
18h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 8. Simplifying Complex Configurations with Templates

Our current setup has two hosts with similar enough environments, so we copied items from one over to another. But what do we do when there are a lot of hosts with similar parameters to monitor? Copying items manually is quite tedious. It's even worse when something has to be changed for all the hosts, such as an item interval or a process name. Luckily, Zabbix provides a means to configure these things in a unified fashion with the templating system.

Identifying template candidates

Templates allow a Zabbix administrator to reduce their workload and streamline the configuration. But to deploy the templates properly we have to first identify use cases that require or benefit from them. ...

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ISBN: 9781782161288