Making zabbix maps more user friendly

[german77gl]

I have used zabbix as a network monitor for over a month and had made many changes to make it more user friendly. I hope some of this changes are added to zabbix.

Map changes

• Saving a edited map no longer redirects you to maps list. Instead you are redirected to the map you where editing. Useful when making many small changes on the same map.
• Passive map elements on map. Allows you to navigate between maps back and forth without making circular references but keeping triggers.
• Zoom on maps. Very useful on phones where you need more view area.
• Map elements no longer shows popup menus if the only action is go to map.
• Map links shows items from the host connected
• Map links show real-time graphs on click
• Map host show real-time graphs on popup menu.
• Popup menus are more compact in phones, no one want to scroll in a popup menu.
• Removed min-width from body, This way the edit button fits on the screen on phones.

Future changes

• Map link color changes according to the Mbps that are currently going.
• Map link arrows showing direction of data
• Map size resize automatically according to elements placed on it. No longer making those changes in map properties manually.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

[Hamardaban]

Some of the improvements are very interesting. Where can I get the source codes?

[nelg]

Same here, this is very good!

[tim.mooney]

I would encourage you to submit enhancement requests via the public bugtracker (support.zabbix.com) and/or pull requests to the source code tracker for the web interface.

I think many of these changes are beneficial, and I would love to see you work with Zabbix.com developers to get as much incorporated into the mainline code as makes sense.

[german77gl]

I have a private repository with all those changes. The problem is that the repository has also changes specifically for the company I work with. If you like a feature specifically I can make a public repository only with that feature.
I also want to work with zabbix developers. But I can't work for free I got to eat and pay bills too, specially if I need to spend time documenting and polishing the code. I may submit one or two features just because I want to improve zabbix and get in contact with developers.

On the other hand I made more changes.

• Host popup menu shows an option to go the map where the host can be found. Very useful to quickly navigate to see if neighborhood hosts has some problems too
• Dasbboard graphs now show multiple columns on the hintbox.
• Dashboard graphs hide item name if the name is the same as the graph name. Removes repetitive text from the hintbox
• Dasbboard graphs highlight the item that is close to the mouse pointer.
• Dashboard items are sorted alphabetically.

[Hamardaban]

Contact the company to get a job. You don't need to advertise your work and ask for money on a free forum.

[german77gl]

Contact the company to get a job. You don't need to advertise your work and ask for money on a free forum.

Sorry if I explained myself wrong. I never asked for money. Just that pushing code to support.zabbix.com needs effort like a job.The goal of this post is to discuss about features that make zabbix more user friendly and useful in a network monitoring environment.

I finally managed to set a color pallete from green to red depending on the usage of the link. The max throughput can be defined by another item or a static number .

[v.mazur]

I finally managed to set a color pallete from green to red depending on the usage of the link. The max throughput can be defined by another item or a static number .

Can you please specify if you used modules for this feature?

Thanks!!