In this chapter, we introduced you to the all the possible ways that will help you to interact with the server, thus enabling Zabbix to acquire items and metrics that are otherwise unsupported. In this chapter, we saw the steps required to move the Oracle monitoring script from the server side to the client side and then to its final destination—the dedicated server. Here, you learned how a simple script grows until it becomes a complex external software. In each step, you saw the progress and an analysis of the pros and cons of each location that the script passed. This does not mean that you need a dedicated server for all your checks, but if your monitoring of the script is widely and extensively used, then it is a good practice. For each location passed, you saw the positive side and the negative side of that particular placement. Now, you have a global vision of what can be done and which is the right place or point to act. Now, the Zabbix protocols have no more secrets, and you can extend Zabbix ideally without any limits.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to interact with Zabbix using the API. The next chapter will explain how you can take advantage of the Zabbix API for massive deployments of hosts and users, and massive and repetitive operations in general.