Triggers like actions

[realuser]

I can create an action which depends on any trigger firing off in a set of groups. Thus, if I have groups web_cluster1 and web_cluster2, any trigger on either of those can fire off an action_web.

So far, so good.

What I can't seem to do in a similarly flexible and future-proofed way, is build a trigger which looks at any arbitrary trigger from any one of a number of groups.

I can manually build such a trigger, if I can somehow shoehorn every single other trigger into its parameter list.

I can write an external SQL script which directly queries the database.

Am I missing something or is this genuinely not there as a feature?

Version: 1.6.4

The goal is to build a top level dashboard which looks a bit like the system status widget, but a bit more flexible. Is there a good way of doing this? Am I barking up the wrong tree?

[richlv]

so the functional idea would be to have a way to visually indicate a problem in an arbitrary subset of monitored metrics - like several specific host groups ?

i don't think that is possible with the current frontend. might be possible with api 1.8, but that would require custom implementation anyway. might work as a feature request, though :)

[realuser]

so the functional idea would be to have a way to visually indicate a problem in an arbitrary subset of monitored metrics - like several specific host groups ?

More or less, yes.

I can hack this up with sufficiently complex trigger formulae, but that fails the moment more machines get added to a group, or machines are removed, or even the monitoring templates change.

Is there a way to put the system status widget from the dashboard in a separate screen, or is it an exclusive preserve of the dashboard?

Is there any way of wildcarding in trigger specifications? I could achieve what I wanted if that were possible.

The surrounding discussion is that our monitoring team have thousands of systems to monitor, so they absolutely need a simple, drillable interface.

[richlv]

Is there a way to put the system status widget from the dashboard in a separate screen, or is it an exclusive preserve of the dashboard?


it's not currently possible to reuse dashboard widgets in screens


Is there any way of wildcarding in trigger specifications? I could achieve what I wanted if that were possible.

no, i don't think that is possible currently :)

The surrounding discussion is that our monitoring team have thousands of systems to monitor, so they absolutely need a simple, drillable interface.
some approaches you could try :

1. in latest versions of zabbix a new dashboard widget has appeared - "host status". it gives you overview of how many hosts in a specific group have any problems. you can click on individual entries and get to more detailed views. you can also filter it all by hostgroup, severity etc;

2. you could create network maps that include hostgroups, then another layer of maps that include those maps and so on - then you could get single network map that would give a high level overview, and you could click downstream to get to the actual list of individual problems.