Zabbix Cookbook

Creating templates

In this recipe, we will show you how you can create templates in Zabbix. It's always advised to use templates as much as possible.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a Zabbix server and access to the server with a Zabbix administrator or super administrator account.

How to do it ...

1. From the menu, go to Configuration | Templates.
2. Click on the Template button on the upper right corner.
3. In the field Template name, you can write the name of your template, example. PostgreSQL template.
4. In the box Visible name, you can add a name that will be visible in Zabbix in case that the name of your template is too long or too cryptic for some reason.
5. In Groups, we will choose the group to which our template belongs. Here we select Templates