In this chapter, you learned how to use Zabbix's discovery facilities to automate its configuration as much as possible. It should also be clear to you why it's important to minimize the difference between what is configured in Zabbix and what is actually out there on the wire. Keeping track of everything that can appear or disappear on a busy network can be a fulltime job and one that is better suited to automated monitoring facilities like this one. You now have all the skills needed to actually do it, and you are ready to apply them in your real-world environment.

In the next chapter, we'll wrap things up by showing you how to leverage Zabbix's presentation power to create and manage graphs, dynamic maps, and screens.