groupnesting

[raskas]

Here is something I can really use, I created a improvement in JIRA for this but apparently this is a better place to post feature requests.

It would be nice to allow nesting of groups. This means that groups can be part of other groups.

Example:

Group A contains group1 and group2
group1 contains host1 and host2
gropu2 contains host3 and host4

In the overview you can choose between these groups, meaning the 4 hosts or just 2 of them.

This can be useful if you have a lot of hosts and want to order them a bit.


Greetings Johan

[Calimero]

As far as I know, host groups cannot contain other host groups.

But one host can be member of many host groups.

So you can "emulate" the behaviour you described but it requires a bit more work and is not as flexible/clean (you would have to add host1 to group1 and groupA...).

[Alexei]

How would you implement permission schema for the nesting groups?

[raskas]

I see 2 possibilities:

If you have permission to all the sub-groups, you can see the group containing the different groups.

-and/or-

Just see the group containing the other groups as a normal group where you can put permission on.


Maybe this can not just be called group, but group-container (or something like that). This group-container can only contain groups, thus no hosts. Which will make the handling a bit more easier.

[richlv]

search for "nested" in http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/doku.php?id=contrib:ideas