Creating your first users
With our newly created user groups, we've taken our first step toward a more structured and secure Zabbix setup. The next step is to actually assign some users to the newly created user groups to make sure they are assigned our new user permissions from the group.
Getting ready
To get started, we'll need the server and the newly created user groups from the last recipe. So, let's start the configuration.
Now we know there are three departments in the company called Cloud Hoster that are going to use our Zabbix installation. We've created host groups for them but there are also users in those departments that actually want to use our installation. Let's meet them:
Figure 1.30 – Cloud Hoster users diagram
These are the users we need to configure for Cloud Hoster to use.
How to do it…
Let's start creating the users. We will start with our Networking department:
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