Saving deleted hosts

[cdslaughter]

I have a need to save all the hosts that are created. even the deleted ones.
I was looking at the php code that does the delete and was wondering if I could just change the status value to another number that is not used, say 99 for example. I want to hold onto the host and host inventory table for historical purposes.

Does anyone know if this would cause an issue in any other part of the code?

Carl Slaughter

[kloczek]

Just disable host.

[cdslaughter]

I could just disable them, but I have a script that is already looking for disabled hosts for other reasons.. I was wanting to place deleted hosts in a different state other than active or disabled..

[kloczek]

That is another fact that it would be more states of the hosts or even possibility ti define custom states using basic other properties like:
- on/off monitoring (monitoring data are collected)
- on/off processing of the triggers
- active/inactive => monitoring cfg is kept and propagated to agents.proxies

With something like this something like 'host is in maintenance state' could be defined as custom set of the above settings.
FYI: in zabbix host which is din disabled state its monitoring cfg metadata still are present in server cfg cache.

Other thing is that in many environments hosts have own states like: installed, ready, almost ready, active, decommissioned, disabled, temporary disabled (and probably this list can be even more elongated) and it would be good to be able those admin states to zabbix hosts states.