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Zabbix Cookbook

You're reading from   Zabbix Cookbook Over 70 hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397586
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Patrik Uytterhoeven Patrik Uytterhoeven
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Zabbix Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Zabbix Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Around in Zabbix 3. Groups, Users, and Permissions 4. Monitoring with Zabbix 5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix 6. Working with Templates 7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix 8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies 9. Autodiscovery 10. Zabbix Maintenance and API Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix Index

Creating user groups


As we have seen when creating users in Zabbix, we have to add users to groups. So let's have a look at how to create them and see why we need them.

Getting ready...

To be able to add user groups, we need a running Zabbix installation with an account that has super administration rights.

How to do it...

  1. Go to Administration | Users and select from the dropdown on the right user groups. This will give you an overview of all user groups available in Zabbix.

  2. Next click Create user group to create a new user group.

  3. First field we can fill in is Group name this is obviously the name we want to give to our group.

  4. The field Users In group is where we can add some users to our group. From the dropdown menu Other groups, we are able to show all users or some that already belong to another group.

  5. The Frontend access selection box is how the users from that group will authenticate:

    • System default: Use default authentication as set in the authentication menu.

    • Internal: Use Zabbix authentication...

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