GIS & ZABBIX: Geographical position for hosts and vectorial maps?

[LEM]

Hi all,

I recently had a stange yet funny suggestion from one of our customer, using ZABBIX: why don't we use a GIS to serialize hosts positions? This way, we could have funny vectorial maps !

See ya in ZABBIX 3.0?

Cheers,

[erisan500]

Google Maps API

I guess a quicker way to accomplish this is to use the Google Maps API. There is allready a php class http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/GoogleMapAPI/ written for and could easily be included in Zabbix.

Greetings

[shilpab]

Hello,
We are using zabbix 5.0. Can you please help in integrating this php class with zabbix

[schneck]

vector vs bitmap maps

I recently had a stange yet funny suggestion from one of our customer, using ZABBIX: why don't we use a GIS to serialize hosts positions? This way, we could have funny vectorial maps !

This depends what you need ... I'm using bitmaps from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blank_maps

as background images, which are fine for my purposes.

Of course, vector data does have advantages (eg. scalability), so SVG might be interesting when a sufficient number of browsers will support it sufficiently well, but IMHO using a full-featured GIS would be overkill in most situations.

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