Importing and exporting templates

Zabbix provides a good and useful import/export functionality. The objects that can be exported and imported are the following:

  • Templates: This includes all directly attached items, triggers, graphs, screens, discovery rules, and template linkage
  • Hosts: This includes all directly attached items, triggers, graphs, discovery rules, and template linkage
  • Network maps: This includes all related images; map export/import is supported since Zabbix 1.8.2
  • Images
  • Screens

Tip

Using the Zabbix API, it is possible to export and import even the host groups.

The export functionality is quite easy to understand; anyway, the import function has been extended. The following screenshot captures this discussion:

The import section is divided ...

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