Understanding the Zabbix monitoring protocol allows us to write scripts, agents, and custom probes. In other words, it allows us to freely extend Zabbix's monitoring capabilities by expanding its means to collect data.

When it comes to actually controlling and administrating its monitoring objects, though, the only point of access that we have mentioned until now is the web frontend. Whether you need to add a user, change the sampling frequency of an item, or look at historical data, you always need to use the frontend as a user interface.

This is certainly a convenient solution for day-to-day activities as all you need to have is access to a simple browser. The frontend itself is also quite powerful and flexible as you can conveniently perform mass operations on many objects of the same type and control different proxies from the same spot.

On the other hand, not every large and complex operation can be performed conveniently through a web application, and sometimes...