Dynamic Screens?

[daniel77]

Hello everyone,

Where I work I’m tasked with monitoring performance of 300+ servers (and growing weekly). Up to this point I’ve used Cacti which was fine but when I began looking at Zabbix I was super impressed with it! Also that I can move away from using SNMP is cool. https://pnrstatus.vip/

I setup a Zabbix server and showed my progress to my boss who pointed out that one of the things we like about Cacti is that if we wanted to see to total CPU usage of all the servers we’re monitoring we could do that in a single screen. I then went about trying to set this up in Zabbix. https://sarkariresult.onl/

I know I can make a screen under Monitoring > Screens but (call me lazy) I’m not crazy about having to add each Total CPU Usage graph individually. I’m trying to find a way to do this to where it will automatically add the graph I want from all the existing servers and any servers we add in the future. I’m stumped as to what I should be Googling at this point. I’d appreciate any direction folks here could provide! Mobdro

[Atsushi]

Dynamic items in screen columns are not a configuration method used to view information from many servers at once. It is a setting to switch the target server and make it possible to refer to the screen of the same layout for the screen that arranged various graphs etc. of one server.

Since you want to see the status of all servers on one screen, consider using Zabbix 4.0 or later to view information using the dashboard features. For example, using the dashboard's new graph widget, you can display the same metrics for many servers in one graph by specifying host names and item names using wildcards.

Manual:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/config/visualisation/screens#dynamic_elements

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/4.0/manual/web_interface/frontend_sections/monitoring/dashboard/widgets#graph