Our current setup has two hosts with similar enough environments, so we copied items from one over to another. But what do we do when there are a lot of hosts with similar parameters to monitor? Copying items manually is quite tedious. It's even worse when something has to be changed for all the hosts, such as an item interval or a process name. Luckily, Zabbix provides a means to configure these things in a unified fashion with the templating system.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Identifying template candidates
- Creating a template
- Linking templates to hosts
- Using multiple templates
- Using mass update
- Nested templates
- Identifying template candidates
Templates allow a Zabbix administrator to reduce their workload and streamline the configuration. But to deploy the templates properly, we have to first...