Collecting Data once, using it multiple times

[mischa9]

During the configuration of HDD's I realised that I actually get the same data twice to be able to display it in % for triggers and in Bytes for accurate Graphs ( since 20% could be 2GB or 200GB).

Is it possible to get the raw data from one item and than have it converted to % and Bytes, meaning the server only needs to check one item all 60s instead of two?

This would improve Server Performance depending on the count of hosts and items.

[alixen]

Hi,

During the configuration of HDD's I realised that I actually get the same data twice to be able to display it in % for triggers and in Bytes for accurate Graphs ( since 20% could be 2GB or 200GB).

Is it possible to get the raw data from one item and than have it converted to % and Bytes, meaning the server only needs to check one item all 60s instead of two?

You can use calculated items for that (available since 1.8.1):
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...lculated_items

This would improve Server Performance depending on the count of hosts and items.

It will probably improve network bandwidth usage, I'm not sure about server performance.


Regards,
Alixen