Hi,
Long time Zabbix user, first time poster!
I have a situation where I want to have a single template to monitor two different bits of time keeping software (chrony and ntp), however only one bit of software will ever be present on a machine.
Here's a visual representation of the problem. This particular host has chrony installed and I'm getting chrony related stats back. All the ntp items are coming back unsupported (understandable).
What I would ideally like is if the /usr/bin/ntpq existence item comes back with a zero then to skip the ntp.stat[*] checks. Likewise, if the /usr/bin/chronyc existence item comes back with a zero then it would skip the chrony.stat[*].
I looked at Dependant Items but have since realised I'm barking up the wrong tree with that one.
I understand I could create two templates and assign each host the correct one, however in our environment we have a combination of ntp and chrony and over a hundred hosts so will be difficult to implement and manage. I also want to cater for situation where a host has neither (ie, trigger an alert).
Any help gratefully received!
Regards
Steve
Long time Zabbix user, first time poster!
I have a situation where I want to have a single template to monitor two different bits of time keeping software (chrony and ntp), however only one bit of software will ever be present on a machine.
Here's a visual representation of the problem. This particular host has chrony installed and I'm getting chrony related stats back. All the ntp items are coming back unsupported (understandable).
What I would ideally like is if the /usr/bin/ntpq existence item comes back with a zero then to skip the ntp.stat[*] checks. Likewise, if the /usr/bin/chronyc existence item comes back with a zero then it would skip the chrony.stat[*].
I looked at Dependant Items but have since realised I'm barking up the wrong tree with that one.
I understand I could create two templates and assign each host the correct one, however in our environment we have a combination of ntp and chrony and over a hundred hosts so will be difficult to implement and manage. I also want to cater for situation where a host has neither (ie, trigger an alert).
Any help gratefully received!
Regards
Steve