Zabbix Network Monitoring - Second Edition

Using multiple templates

There are two monitored hosts now, both having some services monitored and linked to the same template. Suddenly the situation changes and one of the hosts gets the responsibility of being an e-mail server removed. Our options from the Zabbix viewpoint include simply disabling e-mail related items for that host or creating a separate template for it and removing e-mail server related entities from the main template, instead leaving them on the other server. There's a better approach, though—splitting e-mail server related entities into a separate template.

Navigate to Configuration | Templates, then click on the Create template button. Enter C_Template_Email in the Template name field, mark Custom templates in the Other ...