Users, user groups, and permissions

In Zabbix, hosts need to be placed in 1 or more host group(s).  Users also need to be placed in 1 or more group(s). Hosts have gathered the information and, they have items linked to them, directly or from templates. Permissions in Zabbix are set on a group level.

Authentication methods

Before we look at more detailed user configuration, it might be helpful to know that Zabbix supports three authentication methods. Navigate to Administration | Authentication to take a look at authentication configuration:

As can be seen in the preceding screenshot, these are the three authentication methods:

• HTTP: Users are authenticated with web server HTTP authentication mechanisms. Support for HTTP authentication basically allows the use of any of the authentication methods for Zabbix that the web server supports, and in the case of the Apache HTTPD daemon, there are many. If you like to use HTTP authentication, then click the HTTP settings tab and fill in the necessary...