Call for discussion on ZABBIX 1.8

[Tenzer]

- some plugin/api to easy write special collectors, eg for bind, postgres, nfs server/client or other things in various languages (C, perl, python, ruby, shell script, ...)

You should probably look into zabbix_sender and remote commands. That should cover what you are talking about. Besides, the Zabbix communication protocol is on the wiki, so you could write your own client if you want. The protocol is really simple.

[bachhause]

It Reports (sla Last 7 Days)

I think it would be great to be able to choose to see the IT REPORTS off the last month/year in the new version.

[wibbit]

Each Item has a graph already. If you go to the Lastest data, you can open a graph for each item there.

But I think what would be cool to easy select several items, generate a graph and then say, store this graph for this host/template.

This is already possible with Zabbix, you can create a set of graphs for a template, which then get created for all subsequent hosts associated with it.

[troffasky]

This is already possible with Zabbix, you can create a set of graphs for a template, which then get created for all subsequent hosts associated with it.

You can't 'select several items' to generate a graph; you have to create a graph, and then manually add each item you want to the graph, which is a lot slower. A Quick Graph Creation mode, where Zabbix automatically picks some dissimilar colours and sensible axes for the graph would be neat.

[antani]

• A way to deploy custom items/script on host.
• A better boolean logic in creating triggers as discussed on http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11030

[mcarbonneaux]

the 1.6.1 are very fun!!!! thanks for this cool peace of code...

the more importante (i think!) addition to 1.8 are:

- FULL BACKUP/RESTORE of the configuration
- API (xmlrpc, json, rest, soap...) +1
- SNMP browser/wizard +1

- snmp xml query (like cacti) language or visual equivalent can be usefull...
- item that read multiple metric... like one item to read an snmp table of oid...
- or/and wizard like http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10606 but visual to create rapidly a liste of item.. and integrated in zabbix web interface...

- embeded script language (perl, php) in item poller like my patch for php :http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8305
like nagios http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3...eddedperl.html
and netsnmp agent http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/tuto...erl/index.html .
this solution are more performante than external script...because not need forking a each external script execution...
- positive security model: the ability to create user that have default read on all host/host_group...not the reverse...the same for the user type administrator, but the write access (and no acces to user/group and security configuration)...
can be a flag on the user or the group of the user to inverse the model!
- tree view access for graph/latest data/screen like cacti.
- smokeping graph style ==> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/
- smokeping triger like ==> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/matcher/index.en.html

less are:
- item ldap poller, you have simple ldap check but is more interesant to be abel to read metric with ldap query. many ldap directory have performance metric accesible with ldap query (sun directory, fedora directory and openldap does)
- nagios plugin support (+1) and/or NRPE nagios remote plugin invocation support

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/pluginapi.html

- more metric in agent:

• netstat counter: nb syn, nb establishe, nb close wait, nb time wait... like dstat does http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/
• irq, and iowait cpu stat on os that does it like linux
• on aix use perlib to collecte this type of stat like nmon does
  

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-analyze_aix/

  
  http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redb..., Perfstat API

- wather map: http://netmon.grnet.gr/weathermap/ and http://www.network-weathermap.com/
- snmp community string in host not in item +1
- wmi/wbem support like ipmi :

http://www.wilsonmar.com/1wmiwbem.htm

http://beaconserver.m6bone.pl/wbem/standards.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms735120.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394582.aspx

http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-Based_Enterprise_Management

open api :

http://www.openwbem.org/

http://www.openpegasus.org/

http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net/

- syslog item collector (like zenoss)
- log browser with filter in the zabbix interface...
- snmp trap sender in media type +1
- item caculator: E.g. item3 = item2 / item1 * 100 +1

[sbadger]

[QUOTE=xs-;37739]Great to see new development is starting so fast.[*]trigger flag for host unavailable.
In short, that you can flag a trigger that when it's active, the host gets treated as down. All checks will be stopped for this host (and this new trigger events are as well) until this host is 'up' again. (very handy to prevent unnecessary simple check based triggers.
/QUOTE]

I second this. it should have a trigger so that when a host goes to "not available" you are able to alert on that. Simple checks don't always work because once the host goes away Zabbix seems to quit monitoring it on a regular basis and the triggers you have set to hopefully notify it is down are useless.

[bee]

+1 Report

Hi Alexei and Team,
Report feature is something definitely I'd like to see in next release of ZABBIX. For examples, it will be good if i can sort the range of value of an item, and then export it to other format.
Or, perhaps you could put "query" tool on frontend so we can query ZABBIX's data without touch directly into ZABBIX's DB.

Thanks,
BEE

[troffasky]

"Area under the line" in graphs

I'd like to be able to add an 'area under the line' item to graphs, especially interface throughput. What this would show me would be the amount of data transferred in the time period covered by the graph.

[makini]

Focus (window) stealing in Firefox...

I'm not so sure Zabbix' web is doing that,
but the focus window stealing feature (e.g. when Monitoring > Triggers page is open) that appears to be working in Firefox (not IE) is sooo annoying sometimes! Each time a trigger fires, it brings up zabbix's browser window! That is highly annoying if few browser windows are open and one is working on something other then Zabbix!
I wish it could be controlled through the web interface's settings...

P.S.
I suspected that it could be the sound plugin that does that but still, zabbix didn't do that in the pre-1.4 versions!

[richlv]

I'm not so sure Zabbix' web is doing that,
but the focus window stealing feature (e.g. when Monitoring > Triggers page is open) that appears to be working in Firefox (not IE) is sooo annoying sometimes! Each time a trigger fires, it brings up zabbix's browser window! That is highly annoying if few browser windows are open and one is working on something other then Zabbix!
I wish it could be controlled through the web interface's settings...

sounds like your window manager doing that, i doubt frontend could even reliably impact that.

[makini]

No window managers here...

sounds like your window manager doing that, i doubt frontend could even reliably impact that.

Emm, window manager? You mean explorer.exe or... any other Windows' GDI component? Yeahh, that's on windows.
I think the frontend can do that in a snap - it's a JScript trick after all... The only doubt I had was that it's the Quicktime plugin that plays Zabbix's sounds in FF, but that's really unlikely - why and how would it get focus for the browser window?

[paolo.pedaletti]

backward compatibility

Ciao Tenzer,

Ehm, isn't that part of the point in having major releases? It allows you to improve the protocol and certain core aspects of the code which may break compatibility.

you have to think that zabbix "client" are usually "server" for some service (web, mail, database, dns, ...) and for this reason less often update to the latest version of some lib/app (example, I have some server ubuntu-hardy and I can't upgrade them to intrepid for a while...)

so I have now zabbix-server 1.6.1 on a dedicated (ubuntu/intrepid) server and zabbix-client 1.4 on "servers" (ubuntu/hardy)

I think it should be possible to successfully managed such configuration.

[paolo.pedaletti]

Ciao Jean

- Command Line/Script to import hosts, templates, groups,...

YES, definitively!
mouse is nice but command line has much power :-)

also think in terms of backup/restore/filter of configurations...

[nelsonab]

Let us choose the 1.4 interface!

I don't believe this one has been mentioned yet, but it would be nice to bring back the 1.4 interface as needed. I at times need to display Zabbix in a NON-Ajax browser such as a Palm Pilot or a Sidekick. Both browsers do not support Ajax and as such it is impossible without some URL construction knowledge to pan and zoom.

So ya, bring back the 1.4 non-ajax interface as needed, aka let us choose.