feature request that is needed very bad

[alj]

I think this might be useful for everyone:

the ability to export and import template with all trigers and items into XML document (using some generic xml library).

This will add at least 3 great features to the product

1) Ability to share templates over the internet amongst users (in the future vendors can ship their own xlm files).

2) Ability to copy templates between zabbix servers (for example to implement template in production after testing it on testing server).

3) Ability to clone templates by exporting them, changing name, and importing.


The file should have items, triggers and version of format.

zabbix +> format_version
...........L-> trigger +> item
............................| ->application
.............................L->triggers


This could be extremely useful.

[peter_field]

I second this

I second this.

I look after a bunch of Zabbix servers, and I can tell you that it gets old making the same change on 30+ servers. I have already written a VB.NET application to do this, but it is very basic and a bit buggy at the moment, and by the sounds of things, 1.4 is not far away and will have far reaching changes to data structure, so its hardly worth my while cleaning it up.

However, I wish that 1.4 will have this feature.

[LEM]

I think this might be useful for everyone:

the ability to export and import template with all trigers and items into XML document (using some generic xml library).

I definitively agree with this feature request. It's the kind of feature scheduled for the 1.4 release to come (see annoucement about import-export )

This will add at least 3 great features to the product

1) Ability to share templates over the internet amongst users

Which is a really important feature imho, as will help populate a global "Monitoring Kit Catalog" that could be shared the way nagiosexchange does I even heard "well, ZABBIX is a long process to configure"... with templates, we saved times, with import/export feature, this will drop times to the bare minimum !!!

Well, let's see for the next 1.4

Cheers,