Summary

We explored another aspect of host properties in Zabbix: host inventory. Host inventory may be manually populated, but the more useful aspect of it is its ability to receive values from any item in any inventory field. This still allows manually editing inventory fields that do not receive values from items.

Host and Host group maintenance allows us to create on-time or recurring maintenance entries on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Problems on hosts that are in maintenance are distinguished visually in the frontend, and in many views, we can also choose not to show such problems at all.

It's important to remember the main rules about permissions in Zabbix:

  • Permissions can be assigned to user groups only
  • Permissions can be granted on ...

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