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Hi there.
Zabbix console tool? Console what?
If you haven't seen it yet, rush to http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/ and find out how cool it is. But to make it even better we need a nice name for it, so here's a poll with initial ideas. Feel free to vote on your favourite and also suggest new one. Some requirements for the name:
8 characters max;
easy to type and remember;
catchy;
at least somewhat pointing to what it is doing;
lowercase only.
My take on initial entries :)
zconsole - maybe a bit long, but my favourite.
zbxcon - looks like character soup to me ;)
conz - rhymes with 'cons'
zabicon - too similar to Zabicom, japanese Zabbix name.
zcon ?
The shorter the better :p
zcon ?
The shorter the better :p
zcon is nice. while it somehow rhymes for me to zconjob, i like it pretty much the same as zconsole :)
nelsonab
08-10-2009, 11:52
I like zcon :-)
zcon is nice. while it somehow rhymes for me to zconjob, i like it pretty much the same as zconsole :)
You rhyme to much :D
How about zabcon ?
It's not as short as zcon, but we already have zgrep, zdiff, ...
to add to the confusion.
From the alternatives in the poll, zbxcon is not far from zabcon.
Just my 2 cents.
Norbert.
I think 'zconsole' is a bad idea, since that name is already used on (Open)Solaris machines in relation to zones.
I voted for zabicon.
Ha! Just voted zbxcon to #1, easy with just 6 votes in.
BTW: What about "zabshell"?
Cheers
Rü
elesouef
08-10-2009, 14:29
Voted for zbxcon.
My idea would be zbxconfig. A bit long but with this good old tab key, there are not so many zbx* commands on a system....
BTW: What about "zabshell"?
Or zhall ;)
zabbix_zen
08-10-2009, 20:10
I'd rather vote for zabcon or zabman(zabbix manager)
but zbxcon seems the best from the list.
it is useful to type zab+<tabkey> in order to get all zabbix's commands.
nelsonab
13-10-2009, 19:20
Bump.
9 more days, I'd like to get as many people to vote as possible.
While there hasn't been too many commits in the last few days I've been hard at work with it. Changeset 45 brought with it better output formatting and a more flexible user input parser.
Also the Trac site is getting some updates. Stop on by, have a look, give it a test drive and give some feedback. :-)
jthakrar
14-10-2009, 05:40
Should we restrict ourselves to the choices you have listed?
Or can we suggest alternative names too ?
What is the driver behind calling the command line too as a console ?
I think we should look at the command line too to facilitate a variety of things like - (those that the web console allows plus more)
- Configure (add/remove/etc) users, hosts, items, etc.
- Get monitoring and status information - summary as well details for specific hosts/items, etc
- Export/import configuration and monitoring data
- Other
And one of the first thing on my wish list would be the ability to add hosts and items via command line (so that when things like a DNS database, or another database gets updated, I would like to add that server to Zabbix monitoring)
Having said this I would think of something like zabbixcmd as the name for this command line processor.
nelsonab
14-10-2009, 07:56
Should we restrict ourselves to the choices you have listed?
Or can we suggest alternative names too ?
If you have a name you feel strongly about and it's not listed let us know. If more people speak up for zabcon then I'll go with that.
- Configure (add/remove/etc) users, hosts, items, etc.
- Get monitoring and status information - summary as well details for specific hosts/items, etc
- Export/import configuration and monitoring data
- Other
That is pretty much the goal of the first version. Not all status information will be available due to API limitations but I forsee all of them being worked out in time.
And one of the first thing on my wish list would be the ability to add hosts and items via command line (so that when things like a DNS database, or another database gets updated, I would like to add that server to Zabbix monitoring)
This is also a goal of the first version. Right now the tool can take commands from an external file, however that needs more refinement.
Having said this I would think of something like zabbixcmd as the name for this command line processor.
Thanks for your thoughts. Head over to the site I've setup for it and check it out.
:)
it is useful to type zab+<tabkey> in order to get all zabbix's commands.
Good idea.
besides, I'm also like the "zabicon" but I think "zabcon" will be more better. Actually, I'm also writing a similar command line tool to read some items's history data and generate the chart for the report use... I named it 'zabchart'.;)
DizAstro
20-10-2009, 12:25
zico - for Zabbix Interactive COmmander
I Like it ... is similar to ' bconsole' (from Bacula) ;)
[]s,
Luciano
I Like it ... is similar to ' bconsole' (from Bacula) ;)
which exactly where i got the idea from ;)
How about other sugestions ?
like : zabX
if I understand it’s a ruby frontend, if so and you could then attract a lot of rubyist, it would be great to call it zabbix4r
my 2 cents
it doesn't look like it is possible to edit the poll. but other solutions on this thread definitely will be considered :)
What do you think of
zabsh
like bash/ksh/... unfortunatlly zsh already exist
troffasky
21-10-2009, 14:42
How about zhell or zapi?
What about a quick and easy to type, simple option.
$ zc
Another alternative would just to make it "zabbix-console" to fit with the other zabbix binaries which are already there and let people link it to what they like.
Cheers,
Brian.
nelsonab
23-10-2009, 11:23
After some deliberation and discussion with Richlv I've decided to name the CLI tool Zabcon.
Since the tool was announced a fair amount of progress has been made. It is now possible to add, edit, update and delete a user a user. Show items, hosts, and host groups. Work is being done to allow for adding and deleting of hosts and items. It will also be possible to edit existing items in the near future.
And if all that is not enough, it is possible to pipe your commands into the tool from within a shell script!
Attached is a screen shot giving you all an idea of where we are so far.
Please head over the the site I have setup to for development and take a look. I also encourage you to download Zabcon and provide some feedback. Zabcon has been tested to work under both Linux and Windows.
A Trac site has been setup to support the development efforts, on the main page there are also instructions for downloading from the subversion repository.
http://trac.red-tux.net (http://trac.red-tux.net/)
vlturner
26-10-2011, 19:28
zabit
Since I wrote the management tools on top of what is now BMC BPPM, if this tool gives me the ability to create all of the type definitions within the product.
And I can import the XML templates...
I have a complete set of tools that I will throw at this to read in/write out the whole configuration.
Why is this important? Have you ever done 100K clicks to create an environment? I have, so I wrote all these tools on spreadsheets that we can populate from tools, and regular expression patterns, to create the whole environment.
Within BPPM, I can export, and reimport the whole environment in minutes.
Now if we can get some hierarchical grouping in the product, and I can figure out how to add new graph types using the R statistical language. Then watch out how this product could burn through the monitoring landscape.
I am having discussions with Oracles OEM team on dynamic baselines, and look at how simply the math in Zabbix accommodates them.
nelsonab
26-10-2011, 20:54
VLTurner, It will be somewhat easy to add direct import/export of templates to XML in Zabcon. I already have code to download graphs from Zabbix here:
http://trac.red-tux.net/browser/trunk/ruby/zabcon/custom_commands/zabbix_get_graph.rb
I'd love to discuss adding more command options to Zabcon and enabling others to create new commands/features for others to use. Send me an email and let's discuss, nelsonab (at) red-tux (dot) net
QwErTy_LoGiC
28-10-2011, 14:21
What about princessbarbielandwhereunicornsandrainbowsliveinha rmonycon?
My 2 cents...
vlturner
02-11-2011, 06:06
I understand the script some, but I think it only does the supported graph types.
But I want to do the complex scatter graphs with animation and have them display within the zabbix web server. Any thoughts on this.
What I want this graph for is to model the system metrics and how they relate as pressures within the system.
I want to send you some examples of the BMC toolset I wrote.