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Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition)

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Mastering Zabbix (Second Edition)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Zabbix Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exploring the Zabbix API with JQuery


Another interesting project that we can download and check is JQZabbix. For more information about this project, you can refer to https://github.com/kodai/jqzabbix.

JQZabbix is a demo application readymade to test the Zabbix API and, sometimes, it can be useful to have it installed somewhere as it allows a simple web browser to do a JSON-RPC query against our Zabbix server without the need to write scripts.

To install the package, we need to download the package; here, we can simply clone the GitHub repository with the following command:

$ mkdir jqzabbix && cd jqzabbix
$ git clone https://github.com/kodai/jqzabbix

The project will download a demo directory contained in the jqzabbix GitHub clone. We need to create a new location that we can call jqzabbix under DocumentRoot of httpd. Usually, the document root is located at /var/www/html, but it is better to check the DocumentRoot directive under /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Running the following command...