Hi,
I'm currently getting into Zabbix starting with v3.2. I use it on Power systems using virtualization. Monitoring the different virtual hosts works perfectly fine, but I have a few user requests that I couldn't implement yet.
Possibly somebody here has a good advice on how to achieve these features:
If a performance problem occurs on one host, I need to check what the total HW consumption of the physical system looks like and which other hosts are running on this machine.
I could create a host group containing all the hosts running on a machine. However this isn't static since the virtual machines can be moved to other physical systems. So a good way to identify the physical system would be using the serial number. I have updated the configuration such that the "Serial number A" field of the inventory gets updated automatically. However, I haven't found a way to use this information, other than searching in the inventory.
It would be great if I could somehow automatically create hostgroups of hosts running on the same serial number. I'm thinking about implementing something like that using the API, but I still hope there is an existing feature I can use for that.
Also, having such a group, creating stacked graphs of CPU and Memory consumption for the whole group would be great. So I can easily see the total ressource consumption on the physical system and which virtual host consumes most of the ressources.
I'm not afraid of starting to implement such features, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel. So if anybody has an idea on how to implement these requests, I would be most grateful
Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Yves
I'm currently getting into Zabbix starting with v3.2. I use it on Power systems using virtualization. Monitoring the different virtual hosts works perfectly fine, but I have a few user requests that I couldn't implement yet.
Possibly somebody here has a good advice on how to achieve these features:
If a performance problem occurs on one host, I need to check what the total HW consumption of the physical system looks like and which other hosts are running on this machine.
I could create a host group containing all the hosts running on a machine. However this isn't static since the virtual machines can be moved to other physical systems. So a good way to identify the physical system would be using the serial number. I have updated the configuration such that the "Serial number A" field of the inventory gets updated automatically. However, I haven't found a way to use this information, other than searching in the inventory.
It would be great if I could somehow automatically create hostgroups of hosts running on the same serial number. I'm thinking about implementing something like that using the API, but I still hope there is an existing feature I can use for that.
Also, having such a group, creating stacked graphs of CPU and Memory consumption for the whole group would be great. So I can easily see the total ressource consumption on the physical system and which virtual host consumes most of the ressources.
I'm not afraid of starting to implement such features, but I also don't want to reinvent the wheel. So if anybody has an idea on how to implement these requests, I would be most grateful
Thanks in advance for any feedback,
Yves