Interfaces

When setting up your host, if you want to monitor him, you will quickly need to specify an IP address or a FQDN.

This configuration is located in the interface section of the create host view.

After clicking add, a drop-down menu will ask you to select the type of interface.

Parameters	Description
Agent	Allows use of item keys of type Zabbix Agent and Zabbix Agent Active
SNMP	Allows monitoring of the host via SNMP type items
JMX	Allows monitoring of Java applications through JMX counters
IPMI	Allows monitoring of IPMI through items of type

All types of interfaces need same information, IP or DNS and port number. If you want to use DNSremember to click on the button DNS in Connect to.

SNMP interface need four more informations:

• SNMP version, depend of snmp version configured on the host
• SNMP Community, depend of snmp community configured on the host
• Max repetition count, necessary for native SNMP bulk requests Note that setting this value too high may cause the SNMP agent check timeout.
• Mark the Use combined requests checkbox to allow combined processing of SNMP requests (not related to native SNMP bulk requests)

You can create several interfaces on a host, which may or may not be identical. If more than one interface of a type exists, you can define the default interface (which will be used by default by all items on the host)

Note

We will cover IPMI in more detail later in the Chapter IPMI Monitoring We will cover JAVA in more detail later in the Chapter IPMI Monitoring We will cover SNMP in more detail later in the Chapter IPMI Monitoring

Tip

If you want to monitor host with HTTP call, interface are not necessary.