Summary
In this chapter, 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 you to manually edit 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 with 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 host groups only
This means that, for fancy permission schemes, you might have to do some planning before starting to click around. We can also safely say that, to avoid mysterious problems in the future, every host should be in at least one host group, and every user should be in at least one user group. Additionally, there were two factors that combined to determine effective permissions—the permissions set for groups and the user type. We can try summarizing the interaction of these two factors: