Summary
In this chapter, we delved into various aspects of item definitions in Zabbix. At this point, you should know the main difference between a Zabbix item and a monitoring object of other products and why Zabbix's approach of collecting simple, raw data instead of monitoring events is a very powerful one. You should also know the ins and outs of monitoring the data flow traffic and how to affect it based on your needs and environment. You should be comfortable to move beyond the standard Zabbix agent when it comes to gathering data and be able to configure your server to collect data from different sources—database queries, SNMP agents, IPMI agents, web pages, JMX consoles, and so on.
Finally, you have, most probably, grasped the vast possibilities ...
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