Zabbix server is rich in template tools that contain lots of predefined templates which we can easily be used with your hosts. As you are on this page, you may have already configured the Zabbix server on your server and the Zabbix client on remote systems to be the monitor. You can refer to tutorials for the installation of Zabbix Server and Zabbix client on Linux and Windows servers.
- Install Steps on Ubuntu, Debian – Zabbix Server and Zabbix Agent
- Install Steps on CentOS, RedHat – Zabbix Server and Zabbix Agent
- Install Steps on Windows – Zabbix Agent
There are two ways to add remote hosts to the Zabbix server for monitoring. First, Zabbix has the capability to scan your network and automatically add all the hosts to the Zabbix server. The second method is used for adding hosts one by one manually.
Using this tutorial, we are going to add the host manually. Follow the below steps to add your first host which is running with the Linux operating system.
Adding New Linux Host in Zabbix
Login to your Zabbix web admin interface using the admin account. Then follow the steps given below, You may also refer screenshot showing just after these steps.
- Click on
Configuration Menu - Click on
Hosts submenu - Click on
Create Host button at right side
Now fill in the following details of the remote host and then go to the Templates tab.
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Hostname: Enter hostname of Remote system -
Visible name: Name to be display in Zabbix -
Group: Select the desired group for you host -
Agent interface: Fill the info of Zabbix agent running on host -
Enabled: Check for active
- Select desired Template : Please select carefully, Because it will enabled all checks for the host
- Click on
add link - Click on
save button
How to View Graph in Zabbix
Graphs are always attracted new users, Below screenshot will help you how to view graphs in Zabbix. If you have just added the host, you need to wait for some time, so that Zabbix can collect some data from the remote host to show on the graph.
Use below link to read more about zabbix configuration https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/config/a>
8 Comments
Hello guys.
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When i add a host i get this error:
Get value from agent failed: cannot connect to [[10.89.0.19]:10050]: [4] Interrupted system call
Hi
I followed the instruction and I get this error message on my zabbix log file:
[Z3001] connection to database ‘zabbix’ failed: [1044] Access denied for user ‘zabbix’@’localhost’ to database ‘zabbix’
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Thanks for writing this article. It helped a lot in setting up an Asterisk Agent. Your pictures are very easy to understand. Would be nice to know more about active and passive agents.
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Good article. Very helpfull for people learning zabbix