monitor mulitple sites

[relikwie]

Hi,

after some testing with zabbix 1.1.6 I have some litte questions about various bits. Setting it up costs much time I realize, specially because there's no A-Z documentation yet. My most important question and I hope this is doable with zabbix, is to have something like bigbrother has. An overview of mulitple sites.

Explaination:

I have 14 sites, each sites has network devices and servers to monitor. So what I want is a page with the sitenames and a status led besidide it. All leds of sites are green and when a severe error is happened the led turns red and I can quickly see the problem and click on the sitename/led to detailview the site nodes.

I think this is done by maps, am I right? But then I have no clue on how to create a map. Is there a manual for this or downloadable maps? Guess I have to paint somthing and add icons? Totally clueless here.

Thanks in advance.

[savl]

It was discussed in this thread: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3039
Hope this is what you are looking for

[relikwie]

savl, thanks. that's what I think I need.

Another question, if sites would be distinguisheable by a map and one clicks on a site on the map, can zabbix be configured so that an overview is displayed with nodes only within the site?

I know one can group hosts, say I have 2 sites - A and B and in every site I have 5 unix and 5 windows machines to monitor can I do somthing like:

General Hostgroup "UNIX MACHINES"->include 10 unix machines from A and B
General Hostgroup "WIN32 MACHINES"->include 10 win32 machines from A and B

Then I narrow this to site host groups?:

Hostgroup "SITE A" -> contains 5 unix and 5 win32 machines
Hostgroup "SITE B" -> contains 5 unix and 5 win32 machines

Possible?

Thanks,

[savl]

Well, I think you can create new groups Site A and Site B and add your machines there. In version 1.3.4 which I'm currently testing, it's possible to add host to several groups.

[Alexei]

n version 1.3.4 which I'm currently testing, it's possible to add host to several groups.

All versions of ZABBIX (including 1.1.x) do support this!