HOWTO: Create a Screen Based off a Web Monitoring Graph??

[david_at_ticoon]

I think the title of my post says it all, how does one insert the graphs which are automatically generated as part web monitoring setup into a Zabbix screen?

I am trying to create a slide show for the LCD displays around the dev shop floor that rotates through the web monitoring graphs for our various production sites. I can't seem to access the web monitoring graphs in question when trying to create a screen item using type "graph" or "simple graph".

I found a hackie way to accomplish what I want (grab the graph URL from the web monitoring page and then create a screen as type "URL"). However this approach is sub-optimal because I noticed the start time of the graph is included as part of the query string. Which means the graphs in my screen "slide show" will always be rendered from the moment in time when I copied the URLs!

I tried creating my own custom graphs that could be inserted as type "graph" - but again I was unable to locate the data items stored from the web monitoring tasks.

Any help or insight is appreciated - many thanks!

-David.

[david_at_ticoon]

Hmmm, setting "stime=0" into the query string of the graph rendering PHP script appears to be the equivilent of stime=NOW()

I'm going to try that for a while and see how it goes!

[PratapSingh]

David,

Wondering if you have the solution for it now. As I am also looking to create a screen for same purpose.

Thanks
../Pratap

[tritsako]

Hi,


after you have configured and started the web monitoring, Zabbix will create items for this Web monitoring. Create graphs using these items and put the new graphs into your screen.

Notes: you will have to select the line type and graph type according to you needs.

This is how it works for me.


Costas

[PratapSingh]

Got it. Thanks Costas