Creating slideshows

Besides the possibility to integrate multiple small screens in a big screen, it is also possible to combine multiple screens into a so-called slideshow. In a slideshow, the screens are shown one after another.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a Zabbix server properly configured and access to a Zabbix admin account. We also need to have 2 or more screens configured. If you don't know how to configure screens, then have a look at Chapter 7, Creating screens.

How to do it...

  1. From the menu go to Configuration | Slideshows.
  2. In the upper right corner, click on Create slideshow.
  3. In the Name field we add a name for our slideshow.
  4. Default delay (in seconds), here we add the delay between each screen.
  5. In the Slides field, we press the Add button and select from the popup box the screens that we want to add to our slides.
  6. You will see a Delay box after each Screen. Here we can choose a delay different than the default delay we have chosen for each slide.
  7. When you are ready, click the Add button to save our slideshow.
    How to do it...
  8. To watch our slideshow, go to Monitoring | Screens and select Slide shows from the dropdown box on the upper right corner.
    How to do it...
  9. On the right side of slideshow we see three icons. The first one is a plus icon; this is to add our slideshow to our favorites. The second icons will show us a list of multipliers that we can use to manipulate the time between the slides. The third icon will show the slideshow in fullscreen mode.

How it works

Slideshows in Zabbix are built from screens. So the first thing we have to do is create screens in Zabbix that we like. We can then create a slideshow from it by adding screens to the slideshow. It is possible to create multiple slideshows.

There's more...

In slideshows the minimum time between 2 screens is 5 seconds. Even if you put 2 or 4 seconds the minimum delay will be 5. If you try to fool Zabbix by creating a delay of 5 and using the multiplier of 0.5, then the delay between 2 screens will still be 5 seconds.

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