Host dependencies

[osoh]

Hi all,

We're thinking about migrating from nagios to zabbix, but we miss host dependencies (ala nagios). For example, we have three smtp servers. And we have two routers, so smtp1 depends on router1 and the others depends on router2.

If one of the routers goes down, we don't want zabbix to send alerts about the smtps which depends on that router. And when the router goes up, we don't want to receive a lot of alerts about smtp recovery.

Is this kind of behaviour possible with Zabbix? If it's not possible, I'd like to know if you're interested in this kind of feature and maybe we could write some code.

Thank you.

[Alexei]

ZABBIX handles dependencies on trigger level. It means that you if one trigger (A) depends on another (B), notification will not be executed for A if trigger B is in TRUE state.

I believe this approach is much more flexible.

[glut0r]

Ideas presented above is not patented yet, so use it freely before big companies 'invent' it in somewhere in the land of freedom

Seriously, currently the dependencies are only used to prevent unnecessary notifications. This concept has to be extended...

[Alexei]

I am very sorry, it seems I incidently edited your message instead of posting a new one. Not sure of the original post can be restored... Shame on me!!!

[glut0r]

Things happen, so don't worry too much.

I was talking about extending triggers presentation in 'monitoring overview', triggers that unreachable due to dependant service beeing down might be presented in different color than red. If it was different color, say yellow, it would be much easier to track the source of problem, instead of watching all of the triggers beeing show in red and thinking, what the hell died or having all dependencies map in mind.