Screenshots of ZABBIX v1.1

[Alexei]

Screenshot1. Note drop-down selection of host groups and hosts.


Screenshot2. Screens can be easily selected from a list which is kind of standard in 1.1.


Screenshot3. ZABBIX 1.1 features background images, different icons for different host statuses.

[milletjc]

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Hi

I'm using zabbix since now 3 months to monitoring some productions system.
It's works very fine, but I'm waiting with a great pleasure the version 1.1. Any idea concerning a pre-released version ?

[DiedX]

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[xaeth]

I like the use of drop downs.. very nice. really does help with screen space and finding the right host in a sea of text.

You don't have a screencap of this so i'm going to ask.... when creating graphs did you seperate the parameter from being a single dropdown of "host:item" or did you do like the group/host separation in your view and base the second on the first?

You can see what i mean here

anyways.. yeah...

[Alexei]

It's not done yet, but I'd like to separate drop-downs. So, you'll see two drop-downs instead of one in these cases.

[xaeth]

score u rock

[charles]

I think dropdowns will be problematic for anyone with a large number of hosts.

charles

[Alexei]

I think dropdowns will be problematic for anyone with a large number of hosts.

The hosts are grouped, so you select a Host Group first, then select a Host you need.

[charles]

The hosts are grouped, so you select a Host Group first, then select a Host you need.

But I still have hundreds in each group. And my goal is to have thousands

I know you'll say I should have better grouping, but without nested groups, (in my case) I can't think of a good way to group them in order to reduce the number of hosts per group.

charles

[Alexei]

I know you'll say I should have better grouping, but without nested groups, (in my case) I can't think of a good way to group them in order to reduce the number of hosts per group.

What could be effective yet simple navigation control for the nested groups? I'd appreciate any URLs with working examples

[charles]

What could be effective yet simple navigation control for the nested groups? I'd appreciate any URLs with working examples

I honestly don't know what the answer is to this, I just know that as the number of hosts increase the dropdowns will become hard to use. I have no working examples then of course

I think this is like any indexing problem though. You'd need to be able to group them. One way would be to have 24 "buckets", A-Z and automatically group them that way when you reach some threshold. All hosts starting with 't' go in the 't' bucket. etc. You might need to exclude leading www. or something.

In my case this wouldn't work as all my hosts are named DTG####, so if I could easily customize the rule, it would cut out the DTG and then I'd probably group by 100's or something. DTG1-DTG99 would go in the first bucket, DTG300-399 in the third, etc.

IPs could be grouped by subnet I suppose.

Sorry I'm not being much help, but just wanted to point out what I see becoming a real problem for me.

charles

[Alexei]

In my case this wouldn't work as all my hosts are named DTG####, so if I could easily customize the rule, it would cut out the DTG and then I'd probably group by 100's or something. DTG1-DTG99 would go in the first bucket, DTG300-399 in the third, etc.

I think in your case groups DTG0xx, DTG1xx, DTG9xx would be useful. Generally I believe that an input box for entering host name would help a lot along with usual drop downs for selection of Host Group and Host. So, if you remember a host name, you could enter it quickly, no selection required! What do you think?

[philipp]

I think in your case groups DTG0xx, DTG1xx, DTG9xx would be useful. Generally I believe that an input box for entering host name would help a lot along with usual drop downs for selection of Host Group and Host. So, if you remember a host name, you could enter it quickly, no selection required! What do you think?

Sounds fine to me at least.
I'd probably make this a combined "search & goto box" though. Ie. if a string is entered, that only returns one result, assume that the user wanted to select a single host. If a string is entered that returns many results, display a list of matches from which the user can select a single host
(note that I have not installed 1.1a* yet, so I don't know what I am talking about...)

On a related topic, Alexei: do you have a feeling for how long it is going to take until 1.1 release?
Just trying to get a feeling for whether we are looking at 1, 6 or 18 months and whether we should finally put our 1.0 installation into production or wait for the great new features of 1.1 - especially hard linked templates.

Cheers,
Philipp

[Alexei]

On a related topic, Alexei: do you have a feeling for how long it is going to take until 1.1 release?
Just trying to get a feeling for whether we are looking at 1, 6 or 18 months and whether we should finally put our 1.0 installation into production or wait for the great new features of 1.1 - especially hard linked templates.

I plan to have ZABBIX v1.1 released by 1st of March. Actually March is deadline for 1.1 because of some reasons.

As for hard-linked templates, the functionality is nearly ready, I have a couple of design issues to be sorted out, but anyway I think I could release it in next alpha, i.e. ZABBIX v1.1alpha5 next week.

[charles]

Sounds fine to me at least.
I'd probably make this a combined "search & goto box" though. Ie. if a string is entered, that only returns one result, assume that the user wanted to select a single host. If a string is entered that returns many results, display a list of matches from which the user can select a single host
(note that I have not installed 1.1a* yet, so I don't know what I am talking about...)

Yes, i like this - being able to enter the hostname would be fine but this search idea would be even better. And yes I could re-organize my groups.

I'm also waiting for hard linked templates so looking forard to that alpha too!

charles