Call for discussion on ZABBIX 1.6

[managenet]

Web scenario with dynamic URL (state)

Hi All,

Great job with 1.4.4 - looking forward to 1.6!

A very useful addition to web scenario monitoring would be the ability to capture the URL of the returned page in a variable that could be used for subsequent steps - even better if it were parsed or parable. I would like to monitor a site that generates a unique variable in the URI and requires it for subsequent requests. If I could access a variable, I could construct subsequent steps for that session.

Thanks!

[xs-]

Trigger consistency

Request for 1.6 or 1.6.x

The following scenarios (and possibly more) will not negate a trigger via the actions (i.e. mail or other alertscript interface). Correct me if im wrong, i didnt test it really well.
- Deleting a trigger
- Unlinking a trigger (basically same as deleting, yes i know)
- disabling a trigger or child item
- Disabling a true trigger which trigger depends on (dont know if this works now tho)
- more?

In some distributed nodes we have integrated HP OpenView for ticketing and such via alert scripts. In the above cases, no alertscript is triggered for a trigger off message and thus the 'issue remains in hp openview'.

Again, correct me if im wrong, i could possibly (very likely ) made the interface script wrong.

[xs-]

host available trigger

Hi,

Would it be possible to create a trigger option which, if the trigger is true, disables all other triggers for that host.

Depending on the type of system and its reachability, agent.ping,snmp check or icmpping wont cut it.

It would be nice if trigger creation got an extra flag which could put the entire server in unavailable state.
This would also be nice for i.e. reboots. When reboot detected (uptime) have the trigger remain up for 10min so simple checks (different template, not dependant) wont fire off triggers because the host is booting slowly

Hope you understand my ramblings, just an feature idea which i think would be great to have

[NOB]

ZABBIX Proxy on Windows ?

Hi Alexei

I am impressed with the progress of development and the new features
already implemented or on the list for 1.6.

I watch the roadmap for 1.6 closely (once per week to not miss an
update) because we want to start with 1.6 as soon as possible.
I am happy about the publication of this roadmap.
Although the percentage of the implementation is sometimes
difficult to guess, it gives a rough indication what has been done
and what is left to do.

This week there is a new feature mentioned on the list:
ZABBIX Proxy
Looking at the source I see that this will be available for Linux/UNIX
and Windows (DB access via ODBC).
On Windows this will run as a service.
Do we need a cygwin environment for this -> /usr/sbin/fping is
mentioned in the source ?
So it is no longer quite true what I told my colleagues last
week about ZABBIX -> Server only on Linux/UNIX.

Last week another new feature showed up:
Buffering data on agent side but it is already completely
implemented and tested.

These features are nice and we might need those sometime in the
future. But I think the completion of the tasks
better distributed monitoring and database cache module
is much more important for us.

Regards

Norbert.

[Alexei]

These features are nice and we might need those sometime in thefuture. But I think the completion of the tasks
better distributed monitoring and database cache module
is much more important for us.

Obviously you are interested in a better performance. The combination of the new communication protocol with ZABBIX Proxy plus agent buffering and the database cache module will be extremely efficient for large setups. I wish we had more time for detailed performance tests...

We may continue the discussion elsewhere to avoid offtopics...

[andreminelli]

Macros on Items

It will be very helpfull for Windows monitoring if an Item expression could have Macros so we could define templates for counters as MSMQ Queue ({HOSTNAME} macro in this case) .

Regards!

[Jes]

memory fonctionnality

hello,

I use zabbix 1.4.2, it is a powerful tool, thank for your work.

I have some memory trouble with my multithread cpu server(8 CPU, 8 Go of RAM and 15Go of swap)
The proc.mem[,user,] functionality show me the memory's sum of all the tread of a process, as you can see in the top
example:
for the user toto in top we can see:

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1744 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 1:59 4 launch
1759 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1760 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1761 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1762 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1763 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1764 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1765 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch
1766 toto 25 0 625M 625M 5132 S 0.0 8.0 0:00 4 launch


the process "launch" really used only 625M but not 625M*9= 5625M
The proc.mem[,user,] and so the the graph too return 5625M instead of 625M .

can you fix this problem?
tank for your help

[ahanson]

About Zabbix 1.6

Checked the Roadmap that is updated weekly, and for some reason it STILL says "most likely in March of 2008". Looking at the table, I think it's pretty obvious this isn't coming out in March of 2008. By the looks of this table since January, most likely not in April or May of 2008 either. There has been serious progress made on these items, but the percentages aren't really helpful to me as I TRY to plan for Zabbix 1.6. Can we get a adjusted expected release date again please? I don't know if there being 0 testing done on Escalations, Encryption, XML Backup, and database cache means that this isn't coming out until December of this year. If it's not going to be released until 2009, fine. Just someone please tell me, and take the "March 2008" piece off that page.

[offler]

Windows server

Suggestion:
Quite simple. Port the server to windows. We get rid of old Unix & Linux servers. With medical device the costs for certification and maintenance of the certification was much to high, so we took the step to switch medical servers fully to windows. Also costs for heterogeneous networks were to high, so we will not use Unix or Linux in future. To use Zabbix we would need it as native windows software. Otherwise we are not even able to test the software. (Cygwin or vm is a no-go for us).

[skogan]

Suggestion:
....

LLOOOOLLLLLL

[noxis]

Suggestion:
Quite simple. Port the server to windows. We get rid of old Unix & Linux servers. With medical device the costs for certification and maintenance of the certification was much to high, so we took the step to switch medical servers fully to windows. Also costs for heterogeneous networks were to high, so we will not use Unix or Linux in future. To use Zabbix we would need it as native windows software. Otherwise we are not even able to test the software. (Cygwin or vm is a no-go for us).

"Sorry sir we could not revive him, there.... there was a bsod "

[petteja]

Hello!

We wants /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/ directory for store custom configuration files, for example with UserParameter-s.

The purpose of this is that some packages may place own's files in this directory, such as for their own monitoring.

Hi,

we also have this requirement. Any plans for this making it into ZABBIX? I cannot see it in the roadmap for 1.6 or any other versions.

Cheers,
Petter

[sege]

Hi,

we also have this requirement. Any plans for this making it into ZABBIX? I cannot see it in the roadmap for 1.6 or any other versions.

On my wish list as wall actually.

[Alexei]

we also have this requirement. Any plans for this making it into ZABBIX? I cannot see it in the roadmap for 1.6 or any other versions.

I do not quite understand what you are talking about. There is Include directive supported by zabbix_agentd.conf, which is probably what you need.

[offler]

@noxxis this is more serious than it sounds. If you need to get a medical certification in germany you need to certify every part of the system. If you build systems like a linux from multiple sources, you need to spend a hell lot of money for certification of each subsystem, you must make a risk analysis for each subsystem, each possible patch path and so one. This is easier, if you only build a small system (like airbus does with aeroplanes), but if you need something like a PACS-system (with dbs, loadbalancing etc.) with multiple servers which needs more than a small coresystem, you can only do it if the core system has only one vendor. That means : either windows or a unix which has only patches from one vendor, and not many small possible sources of problems (do you know how many programms have some strange dependencies? You can't therefore make a risk analysis for a normal Linux System by e.g. RedHat.) If you use a system like solaris the probability is extremly high, that the server hardware is not supported by drivers 5 years later. We even got problems with a linux from 2007 to support the storage systems of an ibm system from 2005 which was shipped from ibm with linux. The older linux could no longer be used because of security reasons. So we had some ibm experts with fixed drivers after 48 hours. Can you imaging what that service costs? Have you ever seen cinical tablets with linux? Also many terminals in hostels like Igel use Windows because of this issues. It is just to damn expensive to use a free system.