Application

[icica]

Hello to all
I have been reading the manual of zabbix to verify which is the utility of the concept applicacion, I explain:
I know that an application is a set of items that can belong to different hosts but, the question is: does it serve for something more that to organize the items?
I Would be grateful very much that you were putting some real example of utilization.


Thanks.

[Alexei]

Does it serve for something more that to organize the items?

Currently application is just a set of items. It is used to organized the items, also application can be used for notification conditions, for example, for sending alerts for MySQL related problems only.

[xs-]

Would it be possible to make application a global list instead of a list per template/host?
IMHO this makes more sense then per template/host.

With a lot of templated items, linkage, custom checks etc, it is getting more difficult to keep the names in sync.
Specially when using application as action condition.

[tekknokrat]

just remove the check on linkage

I have some linkage problems when linking templates where formerly applications where added, that even not exists anymore.

Imo the easiest would be to keep application as is in host/templates but do not check for existing on linkage, I dont see any sense either havent found a explanation why they cant overlap in forum.

[xaeth]

make Applications global pls

I agree w/ xs-, I didn't realize this was template/host specific and was suddenly mildly confused as I was creating templates for a small system and they weren't there and I had to manually match the names.