How to Create Zabbix Admin User

Create Zabbix Admin User: After initial installation, Zabbix has only two users defined. User “Admin” is a Zabbix superuser, which has full permissions. User “guest” is a special default user. If a user does not log in, the user will be accessing Zabbix with “guest” permissions. By default, “guest” has no permissions on Zabbix objects.

This is the Zabbix “Welcome” screen. Enter the user name Admin with password zabbix to log in as a Zabbix superuser.

Initially there are only two users defined in Zabbix.

‘Admin’ user is a Zabbix superuser, which has full permissions.

‘Guest’ user is a special default user. If you are not logged in, you are accessing Zabbix with “guest” permissions. By default, “guest” has no permissions on Zabbix objects.

To add a new user, click on Create user.

Enter the Users details as below or as required.

By default, a new user has no permissions. To grant the user rights, click on the group in Groups column.

All mandatory input fields are marked with a red asterisk.

By default, new users have no media (notification delivery methods) defined for them. To create one, go to the ‘Media’ tab and click on Add.

In this popup, enter an e-mail address for the user. You can specify a time period when the medium will be active (see Time period specification page for description of the format), by default a medium is always active. You can also customise severities for which the medium will be active, but leave all of them enabled for now. Click Add, then click Save in the user properties. The new user appears in the user list.

In this pop-up, enter an e-mail address for the user.

Adding permissions

By default, a new user has no permissions to access hosts. To grant the user rights, click on the group of the user in the Groups column (in this case – ‘Zabbix administrators’). In the group properties form, go to the Permissions tab.