Item template change - active/disable problem

[AdrianS]

Hi

I'm not sure if it's a bug or feature request - like for me it's a bug ... but

Ok, when you change something in item of template, all changes are propagated
to every linked host - that's ok But because "status" of every item can be
set separately this value should not be propagated - should be left as is.

It makes a lot of problems, since you can't do anything in template without destroying setting in every linked host.

And to be clear - example:
Linux_t -> Free space on /home
if I change for example: "Update interval (in sec)", and by default this item status is set to "disabled" - all hosts using Linux_t template suddenly will stop monitoring free space on /home, since this item will be set to disabled.

I think zabbix should only update values that were changed (best solution) - or update everyting except "status".

Regards
--
Adrian

[AdrianS]

I'v changed zabbix before to act like I wanted (described in post before). Then I'v upgrade to new version on I had to change it once again - so here it is - small change in PHP which will stop propagate changes of "status" from template to linked with it hosts/items.

--- items.inc.php       2008-07-23 16:57:46.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/items.inc.php  2008-07-23 16:58:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -393,13 +393,13 @@
                }

                 // first update child items
-               $db_tmp_items = DBselect("select itemid, hostid, status from items where templateid=$itemid");
+               $db_tmp_items = DBselect("select itemid, hostid from items where templateid=$itemid");
                while($db_tmp_item = DBfetch($db_tmp_items))
                {
                // recursion
                        $result = update_item(
                                $db_tmp_item["itemid"], $description, $key, $db_tmp_item["hostid"],
-                               $delay, $history, $db_tmp_item["status"], $type, $snmp_community, $snmp_oid,
+                               $delay, $history, $status, $type, $snmp_community, $snmp_oid,
                                $value_type, $trapper_hosts, $snmp_port, $units, $multiplier,
                                $delta, $snmpv3_securityname, $snmpv3_securitylevel,
                                $snmpv3_authpassphrase, $snmpv3_privpassphrase, $formula,

[skullone]

In 1.6, I do not see that changes are propagating correctly to linked hosts.
Items change correctly, but the status seems to not in 1.6.
I wish it was a selection box really, to send the change in status to all hosts or not, because sometimes I want it.

[data7]

Checkbox problem

I also have a similar issue in 1.6.

When I enable some triggers throughout the checkboxes they just aren't updated correctly!

Here's the situation:

- I have a Windows template linked to all my Win hosts
- By default, I set all filesystems checks disabled except for "C:". I do this cause I don't like seeing a lot of Unknown states. In other words, I set itens and the trigger related to it by default.
- Then, after all is set, I start to check which filesystems exist on every host and enable the itens and THEN the triggers related to it. But when I start to select multiple triggers to activate, it simply doesn't work! So i'm obligated to enable them by clicking on every status link...

On 1.4.5 I didn't had the same issue. Is this a known bug?

Thanks.