3 Item types

Overview

The following items types are currently offered by Zabbix:

• SNMP agent checks
• IPMI checks
• Log file monitoring
• • Aggregate calculations
• SSH checks
• Trapper items
• ODBC checks
• HTTP checks

Some checks are performed by Zabbix server alone (as agent-less monitoring) while others require Zabbix agent or even Zabbix Java gateway (with JMX monitoring).

Multiple interfaces can be set in the host definition: Zabbix agent, SNMP agent, JMX and IPMI. If an item can use more than one interface, it will search the available host interfaces (in the order: Agent→SNMP→JMX→IPMI) for the first appropriate one to be linked with.