First of all, Zabbix is one of the nicest and most complete alternative (oo) to Nagios that ive seen. It seems welly designed, thought out, and its implementation is simple as can be. It has my respects, and you as a coder have amazed me. (something thats not easily done). This is my first post, expect some critism and some comments in my postings in the future.
I have a couple of of "ease of use" suggestions that i will post later when I think out how to improve them (2am now, rather tired). But all in all, my only complaint is template inheritance.
Template Inheritance
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For example i laid my templates out such as:
server
- UNIX
-- Webserver
-- MySQL_Database
Now, obviously a machine can host mysql, which has a unique set of triggers, as well as a webserver. It would be nice to be able to tie a "host" to BOTH the Webserver category and the MySQL_Database category if it hosts both services.
User Friendlyness Improvement (create graph)
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Adding new graphs "create graph" ALWAYS adds it to "all" and you have to select all/all from the drop downs to find the [edit] button, i find this a pain, it should automatically tie to the hostname that is currently in the drop down if one is selected, OR you should be able to immediately add the first "item" on the inital "create graph" page so that it properly ties it to the right host immediately after creation (no need to go hunt it down) -- this is confusing, not user friendly, and took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on.
User Friendlyness Improvement (triggers)
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Triggers & actions should be combined together into one thing such as
"graphs" & "items" are one thing.
Triggers are alerting functions that perform actions when "TRUE". As such for user friendlyness it would be neat to be able to add the actions directly to the trigger, instead of having to create actions seperately.
User Friendlyness Improvement (IT Services)
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.... sigh? -- this is one of the most confusing parts of zabbix, i have not yet figured it out fully.
CRASH - zabbix_server crashes when /var 100% usage
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The zabbix_server process (1.1) crashes/exits when /var reaches 100% disk usage (linux-2.6) .
Thanks for the excellent software, its very useful.
I have a couple of of "ease of use" suggestions that i will post later when I think out how to improve them (2am now, rather tired). But all in all, my only complaint is template inheritance.
Template Inheritance
------------------------------------
For example i laid my templates out such as:
server
- UNIX
-- Webserver
-- MySQL_Database
Now, obviously a machine can host mysql, which has a unique set of triggers, as well as a webserver. It would be nice to be able to tie a "host" to BOTH the Webserver category and the MySQL_Database category if it hosts both services.
User Friendlyness Improvement (create graph)
------------------------------------
Adding new graphs "create graph" ALWAYS adds it to "all" and you have to select all/all from the drop downs to find the [edit] button, i find this a pain, it should automatically tie to the hostname that is currently in the drop down if one is selected, OR you should be able to immediately add the first "item" on the inital "create graph" page so that it properly ties it to the right host immediately after creation (no need to go hunt it down) -- this is confusing, not user friendly, and took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on.
User Friendlyness Improvement (triggers)
------------------------------------
Triggers & actions should be combined together into one thing such as
"graphs" & "items" are one thing.
Triggers are alerting functions that perform actions when "TRUE". As such for user friendlyness it would be neat to be able to add the actions directly to the trigger, instead of having to create actions seperately.
User Friendlyness Improvement (IT Services)
------------------------------------
.... sigh? -- this is one of the most confusing parts of zabbix, i have not yet figured it out fully.
CRASH - zabbix_server crashes when /var 100% usage
------------------------------------
The zabbix_server process (1.1) crashes/exits when /var reaches 100% disk usage (linux-2.6) .
Thanks for the excellent software, its very useful.