1 Manual structure

Structure

When you navigate to respective sections, make sure that you expand section folders to reveal full content of what is included in subsections and individual pages.

Cross-linking between pages of related content is provided as much as possible to make sure that relevant information is not missed by the users.

Sections

Introduction provides general information about current Zabbix software. Reading this section should equip you with some good reasons to choose Zabbix.

explain the terminology used in Zabbix and provides details on Zabbix components.

Configuration is one of the largest and more important sections in this manual. It contains loads of essential advice about how to set up Zabbix to monitor your environment, from setting up hosts to getting essential data to viewing data to configuring notifications and remote commands to be executed in case of problems.

section details how to use Zabbix for a high-level overview of your monitoring environment.

Web monitoring should help you learn how to monitor the availability of web sites.

presents a how-to for configuring VMware environment monitoring.

Discovery contains instructions for setting up automatic discovery of network devices, active agents, file systems, network interfaces, etc.

deals with the possibilities of using Zabbix in larger and more complex environments.

Encryption helps explaining the possibilities of encrypting communications between Zabbix components.

contains information specific for using the web interface of Zabbix.

Detailed lists of technical information are included in Appendixes. This is where you will also find a FAQ section.