What's The Typical Approach to Monitor Different Instances of One Host?

[zjerryj]

Hi,

For instance, I have several MySQL instances running on the same host. And I have a template for monitoring MySQL server.

There're two options I can think of:

1. Use discovery rule in template, and write a custom script to provide the JSON.
2. Build different hosts from the same template, and use host macros to customize the port.

Which one is preferable?

A bigger question, should there be only one zabbix host per real server?

In Cacti, we tend to use template-host approach, i.e. every template has a corresponding host, even they are from the same server.

How's the "zabbix way"?

Thanks.

[heaje]

Both are the "Zabbix way". The approach you take is really all about preference.

[zjerryj]

Both are the "Zabbix way". The approach you take is really all about preference.

Actually I'm hoping there would be an example for setting up large-scaled monitoring system. How to arrange the host groups and hosts, and templates, the various services (instances).

Zabbix does not have a tree view mode, so the only option is to represent hierarchy with more than two levels in host groups' and hosts' names, right?