Call for discussion on ZABBIX 1.8

[richlv]

No i use {ITEM.VALUE} in trigger name to display
for example FS usage but when zabbix action send mail on trigger
the {ITEM.VALUE} is not evaluate ...

well, you could use {ITEM.LASTVALUE} in notifications, although i'd agree that expanding {ITEM.VALUE} in trigger names when sending notifications also would be helpful. could you please report this on the feature request tracker ?

[swiffer]

Graph background based on trigger status

Hi,

I have loads of graphs and screens running in a slideshow next to my working monitor or on the wall on a big screen.

To not get distracted in working, it would be great if one could set a graph to change background color if a trigger goes into "PROBLEMS" state, so that my attention is brought to the Zabbix screen

[Jason]

It'd be nice to have a way when a selected trigger is true then ignore/hide all other alerts from that host till that trigger is false again. Sort of like a super_trigger

i.e. if a host is unreachable then we don't care about whether any data is returned from any other templates as its not reachable anyway. Not sure how that would work with triggers from that host that were already true before that super_trigger became true. Maybe just hide them until the status changes back to false?

[marcis]

Improved value mapping

It would be nice to have more flexible value mapping definitions with ways to:
- define default value
- define range of values for mapping

This way it would be possible to have, for example, "exec cmd1 cmd1 -arg1 -arg2 val2" in snmpd.conf and reasonable Text in "Latest data" section. Knowing exit code principle of command "cmd1" I could then map 0=>exit_ok, 1-128=>io_error, *=>some_kind_of_error.

Ass suggested on #zabbix at irc.freenode.net I created ZBXNEXT-114

[stephand]

LDAP enhancements wishlist

I'd like to see more advanced LDAP support in 1.8:

• support for TLS (not only ldaps)
• Users should be synced automatically into DB, including e-mail address and phone if set
• support for LDAP Groups:
  • it should be possible to refer ZABBIX Groups to LDAP Groups
  • common LDAP group Schemata should be supported (uid vs. member attribute in group entries)
  • login should be restrictable by specifying a LDAP filter

[jvilhuber]

zabbix-agent identification using certificates

I've been thinking a lot about how to get a zabbix server to allow a client to connect and start monitoring. Specifically in ec2. My background is in cryptography and network protocols, so my thoughts naturally went to certificates and authentication.

Currently, when configuring zabbix without auto-discovery, I have two options: Identify a client by hostname or IP address. I don't particularly like auto-discovery as I don't like the idea of scanning a subnet I don't control for zabbix hosts. Too noisy and too conspicuous from a security point of view.

Instead, what I'd love to see is that a client (who does not have a fixed hostname OR IP) can contact the server and authenticate itself using a certificate (or password in a pinch, but that's not a very good idea). If the server can verify the certificate, then it can trust the client and start monitoring the client, without having to scan a whole subnet (or range of IP's). The crypto library that comes with openssl can do most all of this easily, and I have plenty of experience with the openssl crypto library and certificates. What I don't have is zabbix experience... I've even written a smallish certificate server using the openssl libraries, so zabbix COULD even incorporate a simple CA..

Thoughts?

[Alexei]

Thoughts?

Auto-registration of agents is already implemented in 1.8. I think that as soon as we have strong encryption ready Zabbix will fully match your requirements.

[jvilhuber]

strong encryption?

Auto-registration of agents is already implemented in 1.8. I think that as soon as we have strong encryption ready Zabbix will fully match your requirements.

That sounds good. Obviously I have no idea what 'auto-registration' is (or rather how it works), but on the face of it, this sounds excellent.

Thanks!
jan

[mrmurdock]

The most beneficial feature would be to have the documentation up to date better. I understand limited resources, but, being in the Software developement world myself (though only the IT admin). The manual was useful is getting things running for 1.6.6, but some things took a bit of guess work.
Even if not included in the main user manual, maybe a developers guide for creating scripts, api's, database tuning, os tuning. I know, big task, but, this knowledge should already exist at SIA with the current Staff and external forum people.
Let your support people rite stuff up and give it to your documentation person/staff to include (not everything, but alot of the most simple overasked questions they have gotten). Even the community/forum people contribute some pages (to the freeware documentation set).

[richlv]

2. maybe in the logs for queries on the servers, attach an item_id # in the log files so full debug doesn't need to be turned on, but can see what checks are doing what.. it might help in trying to track down sigpipe errors..

i believe logging/debugging is a fairly weak area in zabbix. feel free to vote on https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-136

[Murilex]

Feture request for next version

I'd like to suggest some features that would be very welcome in 1.8 release:

• The ability of have calculated items in graphs based on, for instance, sum/dif/mul/div of two or more host monitoring items. An alternative would be to have host monitoring items calculated based on operations with two or more keys.
• At certain circumstances, it would be interesting to send notifications to a user using only one of your configured medias, not for all ones.
• If some trigger contains a condition based on mathematical operations with two or more items and this trigger is activated, it would be important to exist some macro that presents the result of the calculation of that items ({TRIGGER.CALCULATION}, as a suggestion).
• To configure user permission in a per host granularity. Today, it is possible to establish user permission in a per host group granularity.
• I think that would be very good if there was the disable graph functionality. By the way, when some items of a host/template are disabled, all the graphs that use that items should be disabled too.

I'm using zabbix 1.6.6 presently and it is very powerful and efficient. Congratulations for all the guys that have developed this great monitoring tool named zabbix. I'm very anxious to the zabbix 1.8 release and to use it in my production environment.

[richlv]

At certain circumstances, it would be interesting to send notifications to a user using only one of your configured medias, not for all ones.

this will be included in zabbix 1.8

[abigael]

I'd like to suggest some features that would be very welcome in 1.8 release:

• The ability of have calculated items in graphs based on, for instance, sum/dif/mul/div of two or more host monitoring items. An alternative would be to have host monitoring items calculated based on operations with two or more keys.
• At certain circumstances, it would be interesting to send notifications to a user using only one of your configured medias, not for all ones.
• If some trigger contains a condition based on mathematical operations with two or more items and this trigger is activated, it would be important to exist some macro that presents the result of the calculation of that items ({TRIGGER.CALCULATION}, as a suggestion).
• To configure user permission in a per host granularity. Today, it is possible to establish user permission in a per host group granularity.
• I think that would be very good if there was the disable graph functionality. By the way, when some items of a host/template are disabled, all the graphs that use that items should be disabled too.

I'm using zabbix 1.6.6 presently and it is very powerful and efficient. Congratulations for all the guys that have developed this great monitoring tool named zabbix. I'm very anxious to the zabbix 1.8 release and to use it in my production environment.

I strongly support this suggestion..Hope the features be granted soon..

Regards,
abigael
Pret voiture

[abigael]

Hi!

opss double post..sorry!

[martin2002]

How to use the ssh agent and telnet agent

Hi,

I had upgrade the zabbix 1.8 with ubuntu 9.0. when I use ssh agent to execute some command , the zabbix server show following errors:

" Item [Zabbix Server:ssh.run[gethost,localhost]] error: Support of SSH parameters was not compiled in."

How to resolve it , Thanks.