PATCH: A new cleaner look for number of problems on maps

[sire]

Hi all,

I have written a patch that makes network maps with lots of items look cleaner by reimplementing the way Zabbix frontend displays number of problems. The ideas behind this patch are
1) to make perception of large networks maps with lots of submaps and hosts easier by shortening labels under items;
2) IMHO for a submap or host group it is more useful to see the number of hosts with problems rather than the total number of fired triggers (problems) inside a submap.

For network hosts displayed on a map red numbers mean number of problems with priority above 3, yellow numbers mean number of problems with priority above 0 and less than 3, and green numbers display number triggers, that are known to be ok.
For submaps and host groups numbers correspond to number of hosts on a submap or in a group having or not having problems.

I have also turned off displaying the number of unknown triggers. The first screenshot shows the cleanest look without unknown triggers. The second one shows the new look with unknown triggers.

The patch also adds a feature of displaying total number of hosts/hosts with warning/hosts with errors/hosts that are ok in the bottom left corner of the map.

[alixen]

Wow, I love it !

I appreciate all your ideas:
- summary of all triggers and/or hosts, not only number of problems,
- more information in less space,
- get rid of icons with "unknown" (too much time wasted manually disabling those triggers).

May be you could summit it in Zabbix bug tracker.
I hope they will be integrated in a future release.

Regards,
Alixen

[sire]

May be you could summit it in Zabbix bug tracker.
I hope they will be integrated in a future release.

How can I do that, could you point me to that page?

[alixen]

How can I do that, could you point me to that page?

https://support.zabbix.com/login.jsp

Regards,
Alixen

[sire]

Created ZBXNEXT-522 https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-522

[zabbix_zen]

Nice !
These usability improvements are welcome.

Those who read this post and like the look of it, please vote on the Tracker.

[alixen]

Nice !
These usability improvements are welcome.

Those who read this post and like the look of it, please vote on the Tracker.

Done !

Regards,
Alixen

[sire]

I have fixed several bugs in my patch. Now it honors the "Expand single problem" map option. If the above option is enabled, the map looks as follows. Please ignore the ping times, they are irrelevant to this patch.

[danrog]

But its hard to ignore those wonderful ping times :-)

Is that part of another patch you created?

[sire]

But its hard to ignore those wonderful ping times :-)
Is that part of another patch you created?

No, ping times are displayed by {host:key.func(param)} macros - a native Zabbix feature, see the manual.

[danrog]

WOW! I can't believe I missed that (never really bothered to look at the manual for maps since they're pretty straightforward). Thanks!

[sire]

Here is a new version of the patch. In this version I have removed an obsolete debugging function. This should speed up creating maps a little.

[gospodin.horoshiy]

awesome! The improvement I was looking for badly. Thank you

[sire]

Here is an updated version of this patch. It fixes a problem with disappearing map element icon after pressing "Apply" button in properties window while editing a network map. The down side of this update is that total number of elements is no more shown in the bottom left corner of a map in edit mode.

[sire]

Patch updates.