Zabbix console tool name

[richlv]

Hi there.
Zabbix console tool? Console what?
If you haven't seen it yet, rush to http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/ and find out how cool it is. But to make it even better we need a nice name for it, so here's a poll with initial ideas. Feel free to vote on your favourite and also suggest new one. Some requirements for the name:

8 characters max;
easy to type and remember;
catchy;
at least somewhat pointing to what it is doing;
lowercase only.

My take on initial entries

zconsole - maybe a bit long, but my favourite.
zbxcon - looks like character soup to me
conz - rhymes with 'cons'
zabicon - too similar to Zabicom, japanese Zabbix name.

[krimson]

zcon ?

The shorter the better

[richlv]

zcon ?

The shorter the better

zcon is nice. while it somehow rhymes for me to zconjob, i like it pretty much the same as zconsole

[nelsonab]

I like zcon :-)

[krimson]

zcon is nice. while it somehow rhymes for me to zconjob, i like it pretty much the same as zconsole

You rhyme to much

[NOB]

How about zabcon ?

It's not as short as zcon, but we already have zgrep, zdiff, ...
to add to the confusion.

From the alternatives in the poll, zbxcon is not far from zabcon.

Just my 2 cents.

Norbert.

[Tenzer]

I think 'zconsole' is a bad idea, since that name is already used on (Open)Solaris machines in relation to zones.

I voted for zabicon.

[rue]

Ha! Just voted zbxcon to #1, easy with just 6 votes in.

BTW: What about "zabshell"?

Cheers

Rü

[elesouef]

Voted for zbxcon.

My idea would be zbxconfig. A bit long but with this good old tab key, there are not so many zbx* commands on a system....

[Tenzer]

BTW: What about "zabshell"?

Or zhall

[zabbix_zen]

I'd rather vote for zabcon or zabman(zabbix manager)
but zbxcon seems the best from the list.

[fazae]

+1 for zabcon

it is useful to type zab+<tabkey> in order to get all zabbix's commands.

[nelsonab]

Bump.

9 more days, I'd like to get as many people to vote as possible.

While there hasn't been too many commits in the last few days I've been hard at work with it. Changeset 45 brought with it better output formatting and a more flexible user input parser.

Also the Trac site is getting some updates. Stop on by, have a look, give it a test drive and give some feedback. :-)

[jthakrar]

Should we restrict ourselves to the choices you have listed?
Or can we suggest alternative names too ?
What is the driver behind calling the command line too as a console ?

I think we should look at the command line too to facilitate a variety of things like - (those that the web console allows plus more)

- Configure (add/remove/etc) users, hosts, items, etc.
- Get monitoring and status information - summary as well details for specific hosts/items, etc
- Export/import configuration and monitoring data
- Other

And one of the first thing on my wish list would be the ability to add hosts and items via command line (so that when things like a DNS database, or another database gets updated, I would like to add that server to Zabbix monitoring)

Having said this I would think of something like zabbixcmd as the name for this command line processor.

[nelsonab]

Should we restrict ourselves to the choices you have listed?
Or can we suggest alternative names too ?

If you have a name you feel strongly about and it's not listed let us know. If more people speak up for zabcon then I'll go with that.

- Configure (add/remove/etc) users, hosts, items, etc.
- Get monitoring and status information - summary as well details for specific hosts/items, etc
- Export/import configuration and monitoring data
- Other

That is pretty much the goal of the first version. Not all status information will be available due to API limitations but I forsee all of them being worked out in time.

And one of the first thing on my wish list would be the ability to add hosts and items via command line (so that when things like a DNS database, or another database gets updated, I would like to add that server to Zabbix monitoring)

This is also a goal of the first version. Right now the tool can take commands from an external file, however that needs more refinement.

Having said this I would think of something like zabbixcmd as the name for this command line processor.

Thanks for your thoughts. Head over to the site I've setup for it and check it out.