Colourcoding of the severity of alarms in the map view?

[DeltaBlast]

Hi everyone!

Okay so here's the deal: we're running a Zabbix server which monitors alarms coming in from machines all over the world. Aside from alarms being true and false, we also have them categorized into severities. We have green for informational alarms, yellow for medium and red for disasters.
Makes sense, right?

Now there's this map overview which displays any alarm and where it's located. However it does not differentiate between severities: if an alarm is true, it's automatically red.
Which is of course quite frustrating because there are plenty of informational alarms which do not require intervention.

So basically what I want to know/could use some help with: is there a way to map the colors of the worldmap view to the severity of the alarms?

Let me just specify that I'm afraid that I do not have a very deep understanding on how Zabbix works. This system was set-up by a previous application manager which then left the company, leaving us with this working system but barely any knowledge on how to change anything. I also don't know if any of this is customized solely for us or that it's a standard Zabbix feature. But I hope you can bear with me, I have to start somewhere, right?

By the way, according to the main login screen we're running ZABBIX 1.4.2.

Thanks!

[Jason]

Might be worth taking a look at upgrading to zabbix 1.6 as the new dashboard screen does exactly this. You can see alerts in each category and depending on how the machines are grouped identify issues very quickly. It is the main reason we moved up to 1.6.

The upgrade is relatively painless.

[DeltaBlast]

Painless? I tried it on a clone and it utterly failed and destroyed the database :P

But thanks for that information, I'll have to find out some more secure way to upgrade I suppose... Thanks!

[Jason]

I initially had a nightmare time upgrading. When I tried, to start with, it crashed once I added a windows machine to the new server. It turned out to be the application and system event log that I was monitoring in zabbix. I turned that off and did selective monitoring of those logs and it seems to be fine.

How did you take a copy of the database for testing on the clone? Were all the permissions correct? In trying to sort my problem I upgraded many copies of the database and didn't have a problem.