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Zabbix Cookbook

By : Patrik Uytterhoeven, patrik uytterhoeven
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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

Authenticating users


Now that we have seen most of the configuration options of Zabbix, it probably makes sense to talk about what options we have to authenticate users. Zabbix supports three authentication methods. In this topic, we will show you what methods can be used and how to configure them.

Getting ready...

As usual, you need a working Zabbix configuration. To be able to configure the authentication methods, we need an account with super admin privileges.

How to do it...

When we want to set up the way users authenticate with Zabbix, we have some choices to make. When we go to Administration | Authentication, the user authentication method can be changed:

  1. The easiest way of authenticating people and also the standard way, is authentication done by Zabbix. For this to work, we select Internal as default authentication method. Nothing else has to be done here. All users will authenticate with the user and password that we created in the user administration panel. If you can't recollect how...