Profiles...

[Harris]

Hello Again,

I have a suggestion:

One thing that would be great to see in zabbix, is a host allowing to have multiple profiles.
I think that it would greatly improve the maintenance of profiles. let me try to explain:

imagine that someone have lots of servers (not so hard to imagine)
Most of the servers, have different services, even in different networks.

and instead of heaving a big profile, with lots of differents itens to monitor, i would break it in small profiles:

here's a sample
Profile: "mailserver"
monitored itens:
* smtp
* pop
* imap

Profile: "webserver"
monitored itens:
* apache
* mysql
* postgresql
* ftp

Profile: linux
monitored itens:
* cpu
* memory
* swap
* disk usage
* sshd
* ......

Profile: fileserver
* samba
* nfs

So i could create a host and say:
This guy is a "linux", "mailserver" and a "webserver"

if i just want to add pop and imap with SSL/TLS to my "mailserver" profile, it will not affect all the monitored servers, only the ones that are on this profile.



I really think that this would make things easier and faster, when you create new hosts, you wouldnt need to disable a lot of monitored itens on the host, since you already told to zabbix what profiles to monitor.

[Alexei]

Badically that is how new templating works in 1.3.x (pre 1.4). You may have multiple templates (profiles) linked to a single host. For example, host1 = email+web+mysql+linux.

[Harris]

Badically that is how new templating works in 1.3.x (pre 1.4). You may have multiple templates (profiles) linked to a single host. For example, host1 = email+web+mysql+linux.

This sounds good, cant wait till 1.4
tkz!