This is a tag-specific summary from the official Zabbix guidelines documentation, based on the situation as of Zabbix 6.0 LTS. Note: “Please note that this model might become enforced in the future Zabbix releases. Templates that do not follow specified rules will need to be updated.“ Tag name and value format lowercase only allowed characters: […]
Category: Monitoring
Moving Zabbix Database
In the series “why wouldn’t I put this out public instead of just saving it to my own notes”: Moving the Zabbix database to a new database server. Step 1: Dumping the current database # mysqldump –single-transaction zabbix | gzip > /mnt/zbx-dump.sql.gz No need to stop Zabbix for this. Add –user and –host and similar […]
Configuring SNMP Trap Receiver for Zabbix on Debian
In order to handle SNMP traps in Zabbix you need to configure your server to receive the traps. Here are the steps, tested with Zabbix 5.4 on Debian Linux 10 (Buster), assuming Zabbix server has already been installed from the official repository: (Note: Long commands and paths below can appear split incorrectly, so be careful […]