bulk export

[badener]

Hi folks,

I just upgraded to 1.8.3 and I am quite impressed with it.
I still have a problem (or maybe I just have problems finding the right documentation) :

According to "Whats new in 1.8.3" export has been moved to the template/host sections of the configuration menu.
This would mean that I could only export my hosts by hostgroups. An export of all hosts would not be possible anymore.

Am I missing something or do I really have to enter each group, mark all hosts and export ?
Any hints on how to do better "full backups" would be much appreciated.

Best regards
Tobias

[walterheck]

imho you would be far better off by taking full backups at the database layer, unless you have a very good reason not to.
As an alternative, if what you say is really true, I'd go with a hostgroup with all hosts in it, so you can export that.

[badener]

20 gb

well I wouldn't really want to backup 20GB of data all the time and I just wanted to save the configuration
the thing about the hostgroup is that I don't need another one in dashboard which I use all the time - is there a way to exclude a hostgroup from showing up in dashboard even when there are active triggers ?

[walterheck]

You can always exclude the alert and history* tables from your database backup, that should shrink things down a lot.
As for hiding groups. I don't think it's possible

[Vedmak]

You can configure which groups to show in dashboard.
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...at_s_new_1.8.2

[Aly]

If I remember it correctly, you may go to administration->general->GUI, dropdown -> show all.

Then you can select in conf->hosts all groups in dropdown.

[badener]

thanks for your help everybody

with the possibility of configuring which groups to show I can setup a host group for all hosts and export