Application nesting possible?

[nms_user]

Dear all,

Is it possible to nest applications?

Example:
Available Applications "Partitions", "C:", "D:" and "E:"
where "Partitions" is the Container for "C:", "D:" and "E:", whereas under "C:" all my items for Partition C: are grouped...


Treeview-Visualization:

Application "Partitions"
╚ Application "C:"
└ Item "Free disk space"
└ Item "Disk queue length"
└ Item xy
╚ Application "D:"
└Item "Free disk space"
└ Item "Disk queue length"
└ Item xy
╚ Application "E:"
└Item "Free disk space"
└ Item "Disk queue length"
└ Item xy


Regards

[simonquentel]

To begin with, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DO THAT EASILY WITH ZABBIX.

It is actually the hightest limitation of Zabbix to me, which is that you cannot "organize the information" the way you want it, each item/trigger being definetly linked to the host it is received from.

Meaning that you can't monitor an application as the agregation of items/triggers from different hosts, or as in your case, that you cannot separate data from a unique host.

Having said that, there is still something that you can do:

Create a HOST called Application "C:", another one called Application "D:". another one called Application "E:"
(you can set the IP as 127.0.0.1 for instance)

On these hosts, you create items this way:
ITEM "Free disk space C" with the following calculated expression:
last("HOSTA:free_disk_space_key") and set your trigger on this new item
do the same for items xy and so on.

Then you Application "c:" can be seen as the host you created.

And if you create a host group Application composed of the trhee hosts you created you more or less get what you are looking for.

I agree, it is not excatly "easy", not to mention that calculated items are only working with numeric values...

Hope it helps, and more generally I hope that someday Zabbix team focus on changing host/item/trigger link more flexible.

regards,

Simon