Any quicker way to change trigger settings etc.

[newbie01.oracle]

Hi all,

At the moment, am doing point and click to change the trigger settings or add new items for Zabbix monitoring, for example, if a new filesystem/s is created.

Is there a quicker alternative to this? For example, can I just do all these work via a XML file that I can edit using an editor and then re-import the changes instead of pointing and clicking which is a bit time consuming and also error prone in some cases.

If I can do this via editing a XML file, any recommended editor to use, preferably free ... :-) At the moment, using PSPad and Notepad++

Any advice on this will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[danrog]

There are a few ways.
1. Export/Import of templates (then you can edit them in notepad)
2. API (probably the better option if you are doing it at a host level)
3. Use 1 to add them to a base template and then disable items that are "Not Supported"
4. a script to drive the GUI.

I would personally use the API for this (it works well for this sort of thing).

If you would rather have a quick and dirty solution (Option #3), you could try adding them to a base template, wait a little while and then do a search for all items that are not supported (using the filter in Config->Hosts->Items), select ALL and disable (or delete).

[zabbix_zen]

http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/doc/api