So far, we have navigated to a host or its items and other entities by going to specific pages in the frontend and then looking up the group and host. This is a convenient enough method in smaller installations, and it's also what we will mostly use in this book. In a larger installation, navigating like this could be very time consuming; thus, a feature called global search becomes very useful. Actually, many users almost completely skip the classic navigation method and use search exclusively.
The global search field is available in the upper-right corner of the Zabbix frontend. In there, type a single letter, a. Anything entered here is matched against the beginnings of hostnames, and results are shown in a dropdown. In our case, A test host matches:
You can choose one of the dropdown entries with your keyboard or mouse or search using your original string. Let's choose the single entry in the dropdown by either clicking on it with the mouse or highlighting it with the...