Creating your Zabbix template

In this recipe, we will start with the basics of creating a Zabbix template. We will go over the structure of Zabbix templating and why we need to pay attention to certain aspects of templating.

Getting ready

All you will need in this recipe is your Zabbix server.

How to do it…

Now, let's get started with building our structured Zabbix template:

1. Open your Zabbix frontend and navigate to Configuration | Templates.
2. On this page, click the Create template button in the top-right corner. This will lead you to the following page:

Figure 5.1 – The create template page, empty

At this point, we are going to need to name our template and assign a group to it. We will be creating an SNMP template to monitor a Linux host. I'll be using SNMP in the example to show how the templates are structured.

Important Note

Use SNMP to monitor network equipment, custom equipment supporting SNMP...