In an off-topic discussion of another thread, several members brought up a feature they'd like to see in Zabbix (that's in Nagios, for instance) where some kind of "soft state change" in an item will bring about an increase in polling frequency of the item until the state reverts to 'nominal'.
I do see this as a lot of work -- moreso from the user interface side -- but I think it would be highly valuable, and would alleviate false positives. Savvy users can use savvy trigger expressions to alleviate false positives, and maybe do some tricks with the Action/Operation to run an external command to change the poll time for that item.
But this should be built in with a simple checkbox click -- into the item itself, methinks: poll till value is zero/non-zero. Perhaps a configurable poll-time would be of some utility. Or, this could be an additional operation in the actions configuration -- poll-until-state-change. This would probably offer the greatest amount of flexibility, and be easiest from a development standpoint, but it would not be easy for the beginning user to get through this.
I do see this as a lot of work -- moreso from the user interface side -- but I think it would be highly valuable, and would alleviate false positives. Savvy users can use savvy trigger expressions to alleviate false positives, and maybe do some tricks with the Action/Operation to run an external command to change the poll time for that item.
But this should be built in with a simple checkbox click -- into the item itself, methinks: poll till value is zero/non-zero. Perhaps a configurable poll-time would be of some utility. Or, this could be an additional operation in the actions configuration -- poll-until-state-change. This would probably offer the greatest amount of flexibility, and be easiest from a development standpoint, but it would not be easy for the beginning user to get through this.
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