Feature request...

[Alfista]

Hi,

I'm new to Zabbix. I'm now trying to full it with our equipment what is sometimes wery uniqe and have a lot work of it.
By the learning and setting up I found some issues, what I will place as a feature requests:

1. Importing (converting) MIB file directly in Zabbix
2. HTML emails format
3. placing graphs to emails
4. creating an table or somating like that from more Item datas, to create an overview, while over screen it use too much space and is there to much not needed informations

When some one know ho to do it, please tell it me.
But I thing the best way will be, that the Zabbix will handle it directly without any extras from third party people, as patchs.

[kloczek]

Hi,

I'm new to Zabbix. I'm now trying to full it with our equipment what is sometimes wery uniqe and have a lot work of it.
By the learning and setting up I found some issues, what I will place as a feature requests:

1. Importing (converting) MIB file directly in Zabbix

Raw templates import would be completely useless.
Usually it contains to many things which are optional and in many occasions not present on many devices.
Example: very basic SNMPv2 MIB contains definition of 32 and 64 bits in/out counting traffic pert port metrics.
Many devices have only 32 bit counters. Another set of devices only 64 bit and yet another group both.

What make sense is start working on set of MIB based templates well adapted and designed to assemble from them monitoring of some exact devices.

2. HTML emails format

You can put on top of email message begin of the MIME section and on the bottom end of such sectio. You can use such approach to have multiple sections with even additional attachments.
You don't need sophisticated MIME/HTML editor such functionality because such editor in worse case scenario may take significant part of zabbix web application.
Look on http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...d-attachements
The same method you can use to add any email header additional fields to use those fields to route emails inside for example tickets systems.

Simple body of the email begins from first line without "Foo: <bar>" or "X-Foo: <bar>"

3. placing graphs to emails

Look point 2.

4. creating an table or somating like that from more Item datas, to create an overview, while over screen it use too much space and is there to much not needed informations

Can you rephrase this? I don't understand this last point.

[Alfista]

Hi Kloczek,

1. We have many devices (from same more then 10pcs) wich use only SNMP and we have to it only MIB files. It are a specialized broadcast devices for only one purpose and we nee to monitor its healt and usage and all is possible to do it only over SNMPv2, to wich we have MIB files. We don't know which sensors are they what all we can monitor. there for is for us wery important to import or convert these MIB files to use it in Zabbix 3.2 which we are running.

2. / 3. I dont fully understand how I can use it. I dont need to much to edit. I will use colors to mark the importance, to use bold characters and add graphs to email.
On the site you added I dont fully understand how to use it. I need to add it in Zabbix where is set the contents of the mail?
I have now make there some changes, and found only possibility to add there only a link on the graphs.

4. I have some informations form zabbix agent and SNMP about the device, like Hostname, description, IP address, OS, etc... When I added these informations over screen then I have there to much balst like date and time, item name, etc... And I would like to merge all these informations to one table that I will place on screen, to some other graphs and overviews I created.

[kloczek]

Hi Kloczek,

1. We have many devices (from same more then 10pcs) wich use only SNMP and we have to it only MIB files. It are a specialized broadcast devices for only one purpose and we nee to monitor its healt and usage and all is possible to do it only over SNMPv2, to wich we have MIB files. We don't know which sensors are they what all we can monitor. there for is for us wery important to import or convert these MIB files to use it in Zabbix 3.2 which we are running.

As those devices are network devices I'm sure that most of the metrics which provides SNMP agent will be covered by publically available MIBs.

2. / 3. I dont fully understand how I can use it. I dont need to much to edit. I will use colors to mark the importance, to use bold characters and add graphs to email.
On the site you added I dont fully understand how to use it. I need to add it in Zabbix where is set the contents of the mail?
I have now make there some changes, and found only possibility to add there only a link on the graphs.

Just in email message template put what you see in example. about MIME wrappings.
Things like attached picture you can attache like it is in with zip file attaching in this example. You need to convert binary form of the picture using uuencode first.

4. I have some informations form zabbix agent and SNMP about the device, like Hostname, description, IP address, OS, etc... When I added these informations over screen then I have there to much balst like date and time, item name, etc... And I would like to merge all these informations to one table that I will place on screen, to some other graphs and overviews I created.

In zabbix you have specialised subsystem for such data per monitored host/device.
Go to your host page and you will find on top "Host inventory" tab. probably it is disabled now but after switching to "manual" you can add some host descriptions. After switching to "Automatic" you would be able to propagate values going to exact keys additionally to "host inventory data.
You can put values in host inventory data over API as well.

In other words: nothing new here needs to be added in zabbix. Everything so far what you need is ready to use

[Alfista]

Hi Kloczek,

1. I don't thing they can be covered by public MIBs. For example we use Broadcast satelite receivers, Snell devices, many Networks products like routers, many convert devices in rack chasis , etc ... We are a big TV station. And all vendors don't tell us much more about all senzors. They only send MIB files and it's on us to integrate it to our system.

2. / 3. Can you send me some links with codes or examples how it can look?

4. Can I use there also macros, or some item parameters to receive the data from the device automaticaly?
And how can I then show the informations on sreen or in imail?

Thanks.