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Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials

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Zabbix Network Monitoring Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Maps – a quick setup for a large topology


Creating complex maps is the kind of job that can take a lot of time. While doing a practical example, if you would like to design a map of 20-30 elements, it is easy to spend up to 2 hours even if you already know the job.

To manually produce a map, you need to:

  • Add all the items on the map

  • Move the items around until you see a nice-looking disposition

Every time you need to add in a map one host, you need to repeat many times the same steps as aforementioned, which will become a boring and complex task. Currently, there are many open-feature requests that can facilitate this kind of task; unfortunately, they have been open for a long time, even years.

The issues you can face are: