Changing Severity Level Names

[davidpe]

How do I go about changing the severity level names so they are more in line on how we do business? I'm looking at changing how it outputs in the UI as we'll as what is sent out via actions. Thanks

[alixen]

How do I go about changing the severity level names so they are more in line on how we do business? I'm looking at changing how it outputs in the UI as we'll as what is sent out via actions. Thanks

In UI, it can easily be done by editing locales;
They are in include/locales/en_gb.inc.php
Just edit these lines:

        'S_NOT_CLASSIFIED'=>                    'Not classified',
        'S_INFORMATION'=>                       'Information',
        'S_WARNING'=>                           'Warning',
        'S_AVERAGE'=>                           'Average',
        'S_HIGH'=>                              'High',
        'S_DISASTER'=>                          'Disaster',

Messages in actions are not localized, so you will have to modify them in Zabbix source code and recompile. You'll find them in src/libs/zbxcommon/str.c file.

Regards,
Alixen

[davidpe]

Thank you for the quick reply Alixen. I wish these were configurable via a value mapping or something so we wouldn't have to re-compile every time we needed to change them or when we upgraded.

[alixen]

Thank you for the quick reply Alixen. I wish these were configurable via a value mapping or something so we wouldn't have to re-compile every time we needed to change them or when we upgraded.

As a maintainer of french translation, I regret that only GUI frontend can be localized. If zabbix_server internal messages could be translated, it would be easy to adapt them to any language (even "corporate speak" )

Alixen