Call for discussion on ZABBIX 1.6

[eli.stair]

Per-user settings, and graph mouse-over text

1) It's surely been said many times, and probably desired by every multi-user install: per-user dashboards! Screens are awesome, and having the ability for a sub-tab displaying a user's "preferred screens/slideshows" as their dashboard would be excellent. And/or just integrate with the existing permissions system for hosts/items.

2) Configurable mouse-over for graphs. I've got some very detailed, complex, multi-item graphs that /I/ may understand... but throw that at someone who's not familiar with the intricacies of low-level CPU/IO details, MySQL qcache/innodb/query, whatever... and having a simple column for each graph as varchar optionally containing mouse-over text would be killer.

Cheers,

/eli

[forlinuxsupport]

Host status date is old

using version 1.4.2


The hosts status item lists the date it was last true / false.

e.g. On the latest values page.
Description Last check Last value
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Host status 26 Dec 23:17:09 Up (0)

It still checks the status every 60 seconds, but that value for "Last check" is old.

Suggestion
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Would be nice if zabbix could auto detect the partitions on a server.
E.g. if by default it monitors "/" "/home" and "/var" and my server only has "/"
It will list the 3 partitions as showing the same space.

Another
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The format of the "Latest values" page.
When viewing latest data the 2nd column (Last check) is sometimes far across the screen.
It is because I have a long string in the 1st column (Description)
E.g. Download speed for step 'Check site Monitor' of scenario 'site Monitor Page Check'

Can the first column not word wrap so the other columns arn't far across the page ?

Regards
Andy

P.S. I apologize if these have already been asked / submitted.

[noxis]

I'm sorry this may already be included somewhere but I really want to make sure that this minor improvement gets included!

Quite simply an option when creating a graph to disable/customise the legend. We have graphs with 50 or so items and most of that is taken up by the legend!

Many thanks

[ptader]

Things I'd like to see in future releases

• A page that list just the specific trigger alert levels (i.e. "What are my Disaster level triggers?")
• Which nodes are marked down and why. For the “why” test, maybe utilize the comments section?
• The ability to mark a node down for a few hours/days/weeks etc. There is nothing like the sinking feeling when you discover that a critical system has been marked down since last weeks downtime.
• The ability to mass add several hundred systems to a Template(s).
• And of course better/complete documentation.

[rreilly]

being able to mix graph types like stacked and line would be useful, saving graph data to csv,

[jean]

Hello all,

I think it will be interesting that the new functionality script like ping or traceroute is available in case of the monitoring for a host is disable or when the host don't have any trigger.
Now, when a host is enable and the host have triggers, traceroute or ping is available to test the host.

I explain why. Example, if a host will be down for technical reason, the better solution in zabbix is to disable the monitoring of this host to not receive alerts, but it will be interesting to test the host before activating the monitoring.

What do you think of my proposition ?

[bee]

Enhancement on link status indicator

Hi,
Not sure if someone already post about this, but it will be good if we able to put the bandwidth size on link indicator.
so, example in the realworld, if i have link from cisco1 to cisco2 i can define how big the link is on Kbps/Mbps unit. for example 512Kbps or 1Mbps. And at the end , in the graph display i can have much more information about that link. Imagine if you have over than 10 WAN links with different size on each, it will difficult to remember right? And with this enhancement, many network administrator will be helped

Thanks
BEE

[pdwalker]

Independant Y-Axis settings

At the moment, when you set the Y axis as "fixed" and you have a graph with two Y Axis, then both the left and right axis are set as fixed.

What would be very handy is the ability to set the scale/fixed axis settings for the left and right hand Y axis independantly of each other.

E.g. say I have a graph showing cpu usage and load average. My axis showing cpu usage would be fixed at 100 while the load average axis would be set to calculated.

This is currently impossible to do with the system as it is now.

[richlv]

Not sure if someone already post about this, but it will be good if we able to put the bandwidth size on link indicator.
...

as a workaround in current version you can create a trigger for that item. trigger size would be shown as a line on the graph.

alternatively, if those graphs are not part of a template, you can set fixed y axis. this would not work if the graph is attached to the template, as usually is the case.

[mactfines]

Octal SNMP Data support, Conversion channels

Hi,

Octal SNMP Data support
A number of values queryable on HP Laserjet printers and JetDirect cards are stored in Octal. Zabbix 1.4.4 doesn't appear to support the storage/display of Octal values in 'normal' text/hex/dec values. Please add this.

Conversion channels
I'd like conversion channels added, which would allow for a value returned from a Zabbix Agent to be modified before being stored, measured, compared, etc. The conversion channels could be something simple within Zabbix, such as running the value through a regex search/replace, or could call a script.

Examples:

• Octal value conversion

SNMP query of hardware address on HP JetDirect printers returns an Octal value. Would like to store it as its normal readable value. The conversion channel for this item could call a simple perl script that would convert this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$ARGV[0] || die;
print unpack('H*',$ARGV[0]);

• Remove quotes if they exist in a return value

{0} =~ s/\"//g

Thank you,
Ted

[fcdfreitas]

Time between alerts

Hi,
Using version1.4.4...
If this can be done, I don´t know how. When one of my triggers is fired the action associated sends me an email. That works well. But if the item is examined each 30 seconds, I receive two emails per minute.
I would like something like "send me ONLY ONE email for this item until the trigger status change" or "keep sending emails only if the event was not acknowledged" or "send me an email each 5 minutes even if the item has a 30s period".

[Alexei]

Hi,
If this can be done, I don´t know how. When one of my triggers is fired the action associated sends me an email. That works well. But if the item is examined each 30 seconds, I receive two emails per minute.

ZABBIX does send emails ONLY on status trigger change!

[richlv]

But if the item is examined each 30 seconds, I receive two emails per minute.
I would like something like "send me ONLY ONE email for this item until the trigger status change" or ...

maybe you trigger expression makes it go off before the next check ?
check the triggers provided by default, those should give some hints.

if you can't solve this, start a new thread in help section of the forum, and give full trigger and action configuration details.

ps. is this thread still relevant ?

[Alexei]

ps. is this thread still relevant ?

Yes, it is

[fcdfreitas]

ZABBIX does send emails ONLY on status trigger change!

So, I think either I expressed myself badly or I made a mistake in the configuration.
I´ll open another thread for this.
Thanks!