Is there a way to show/report what MAPs a host my be in ?

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Is there a way to show/report what MAPs a host may be in ?

I have hundreds of hosts and dozens of maps and I am only have 1/10th of my network in Zabbix at this time - every day I am adding dozens of new hosts to Zabbix.
I have been adding Zabbix-Hosts into multiple Zabbix-Maps. The different maps indicate different types of documentation my technicians can see/use to understand everything about a Zabbix-Host and what it is doing in my network.
My question: Is there a way my network technicians can quickly identify what Zabbix-Maps have a Zabbix-Host ?
Example: Monitoring-Problems is great for quickly showing a problem detected Zabbix-Host , but the Zabbix-Problems showing problem hosts do not indicate what Monitoring-Maps the host may be in.
So, is there a to find what Maps a host is in , or do I need to create an external database to cross-reference Hosts to Maps (and Maps to Host) ?
If this feature is not already available in Zabbix , then I would like to suggest this feature.

North Idaho Tom Jones

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Looking into how to locate maps that contain a host, to me, it appears there is currently no method/tool to identify/show/search what Maps have a Zabbix-Host.
There is a Global search which works pretty well to find matching hosts containing part of the search pattern. However, when using the Global search and a specific host has been located/identified, there appears to be no search/report/indicator as to what Maps may contain the searched host.
Global search(ed) host do indicate "Host - IP - DNS - Problems - Graphs - Screens - Web - Applications - Items - Triggers - Graphs - Discovery - Web" however there should also be a new field added to the Global search results named " Maps " , where the operator can click the " Maps " selection and then see/identify all Maps that contain the searched host. Then , there should be a link to go to a selected Map out of the list of all Maps containing the Global searched host.

North Idaho Tom Jones

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Well - I may of found a difficult lengthy procedure to identify/locate Zabbix-Maps that contain a specific host.
This is a rough procedure , but it gets you what you need.
- 1 , Navigate to Zabbix Maps where you can see all of the Maps available
- 2 , Select all Maps
- 3 , Select Export
- 4 , Open the new file on your Windows workstation with Write.
- 5 , Select everything from top to the bottom of the file
- 6 , Select copy ( copy everything )
- 7 , Open Notepad
- 8 , Paste (past your copy from Write into the Notepad editor)
- 9 , Search and locate your desired host. Note: Your searched host might be in the Notepad xml file in several locations.
search for what you want in <label> - your search pattern - </label>
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search for what you want in <host> - your search pattern - </host>
-10 , Now , in your Notepad editor, click one time on the host
-11 , Now search/find in the UP direction for <map>
-12 , Possible map names containing your host will be after <map> <name> your-map-name
-13 , repeat this process to locate all Map names that contain the host you are gathering information on

I know this is a horrible crazy method to locate Maps that contain a host , but it works.

Something like this would be a useful tool if it was built-into Zabbix.

North Idaho Tom Jones

[Damian2022]

Indeed horrible crazy method but works, thanks. And I agree, such search function should be built-into Zabbix.

[Hamardaban]

Maybe. this help you https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-...-global-search