Create graphs/screens with command line?

[jlkaiser]

Hi,

Is there a way in zabbix to create scripts and/or graphs from the command line in Zabbix. I want to be able to set up a large cluster with things like:

The load per rack.
The total load for all racks.

And then a screen to view those two different loads. I don't want to add 40 machines per rack in 30 racks to a graph and then add each of those graphs together in a screen.

Is there anyway to do this with scripts?

Thanks,

Joe Kaiser

[Tenzer]

I made a PHP script to create a screen automatically, it is made for a screen showing input/output graphs for each port in the switch. The graphs are already made with a template:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8504

[nelsonab]

Hmmm... You know command line scripting would be a nice thing to be able to do. I'm thinking of something similar to how Zimbra does it. Yes you can admin a Zimbra cluster from the GUI and it's pretty good, but the ability to script and manipulate the server from a command line is nice.

I could see this most useful in adding items and hosts. Although the more I think about it, it would be most useful in pulling an item out of the database. It would be nice to have a script which would pull an item which I could then use in another script for more complicated alerting or sending to another system.

Hmm... I think I'll try and hack something out for this. I'll probably have something to post in a few days.