Zabbix: how to quickly deploy and start monitoring the network?

Question

Computer networks

I launched the so-called "ready-made Zabbix solution" on the virtual machine, started reading the documentation, but somehow I can’t understand the ideology of Zabbix.
For example, before that I tried to use Lan Strike and The Dude, in both at the beginning you simply select the range of ip addresses of the network that you want to monitor, the program itself adds nodes and monitoring of the availability (ping) of these nodes immediately becomes available.
1. But for some reason this doesn’t happen in Zabbix, as far as I understand, there is no automatic network scanning tool there?
2. I added a new one, added it to the "network map", on the network map now there is an emblem, a name and green letters ok under it, at first I thought it was ping monitoring, but no. Please tell me what Ok means and how to monitor the ping of a node?

Answer 1

It seems to me that everything is described in detail in the documentation. What exactly are the difficulties?
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.2/ru/manual...

Answer 2

Zabbix does not build a network map automatically, you will have to do it yourself. He has a slightly different ideology. If you want a network map to be drawn and hosts to be added automatically, look towards Nagios.
You need to set up all nodes for monitoring separately and bind the ICMP Ping template to them, and then manually draw a network map.

Answer 3

Zabbix is ​​powerful, but you have to do a lot by hand. Get used to it, once you decide to work with him.