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Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven
Book Image

Zabbix Cookbook

By: Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Zabbix Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating users


Sooner or later, you probably want to add extra users to Zabbix. You probably don't want them to have access to all servers and you probably don't want them to have all rights either. So it is now time to show you how to create new users in Zabbix.

Getting ready...

Just as with groups, we need a working Zabbix installation and a user with super admin permissions, A normal admin account will not do this time. The standard admin account automatically created when installing Zabbix is a super admin account. It can also be handy if you have some hosts already added to you setup.

How to do it...

  1. To create a new user we go to the menu Administration | Users where we will get an overview of all existing user groups already available on the system.

  2. Next we choose Users from the dropdown menu on the top right corner of the screen and click the Create user button.

  3. In the Alias field, you will put the name that you want to use later when logging into Zabbix.

  4. In the fields Name, Surname and...