Suggestion - Comment or description field.

[Fredddagg]

Hi all.

We currently use Zabbix to monitor more than 100 servers and this is increasing. Currently I have 3 zabbix servers in different geographic locations all running 1.8.10-r1.

One thing that I really miss is a short comment or description field to be able to tie to a device or host. As we have nearly 1000 servers in the organisation, we've had to implement a sane host naming scheme that fits location and not necessarily purpose.

My ideas for the field in:
- A short text enterable by the user OR obtainable from Active Directory. (I can't find an LDAP query for this yet, but an LDAP guru might think of something).
- It would be useful in notification email as a MACRO.
- (Optionally) a popover on screens or "overview" view (IT managers have read-only access to these screens, but don't necessarily know what each server does. Works similarly to the dashboard view and the proplems popup.

I used to put this in the zabbix "name" field, but have had to change this to lowercase FQDN, so I can use some external zabbix sender items.

Hope this might be worthwhile.



Fredd

[richlv]

why can't you use host inventory (called "profile" in 1.8 interface) ? you can enter lots of different information there, and it can be included in notifications as well.

2.0 will also bring in automated inventory data collection by allowing any item to populate any inventory field