Can't figure out "Not all Templates are linked to host"

[arli]

I have a lot of templates. Some of them are created from scratch and some are created using full cloning feature.
Today I discovered, that I cannot save many of them.
When going into Configuration > Templates > choose one > Triggers > edit the trigger and hit Save button, it gives me this error:
Not all Templates are linked to host [ ant01.mydomain.com ]
I suspected that there was some mixup with this host and deleted it and retried again, but then there was error about ant02... so I guess, it is complaining about that host just because it is alfabetically the first one.
I haven't changed my templates recently so it has to be control mechanism created in some new Zabbix version, that is kicking in now.

I looked up from the triggers.inc.php file and there is this function

// Deny adding dependency between templates ifthey are not high level templates
	function validate_trigger_dependency($expression, $deps)

I have a template that includes checks that host is up and zabbix agent is running. And inside this template, agent trigger A is depending on the host trigger B.
All the other triggers on the other templates are depending on either trigger A (agent related checks: cpu, disk etc.) or trigger B (agentless checks: ports, web).

So what does this "high level template" mean? I thought all templates were on the same level.
It seems to me that dependencies between templates are forbidden now. Go figure it out.

[arli]

Hi Zabbix developers, can you please explain this or confirm a bug so I could fill a report in tracker.
At the moment I'm very confused about this kind of behaviour and I hope I don't have to redesign my templates system

[DSon]

I've got exactly the same problem..

Appears to have started happening since upgrading from Zabbix 1.8.1 to 1.8.3, after which I imported some Templates.

Now when trying to ammend any Trigger containing dependencies, I get "Not all Templates are linked to host <NNNN>..".

I've tried looking for circular references but not found any. All these templates were working with dependencies before the upgrade.

Is the latest stable version of Zabbix broke?

Please help,
Danny.

[DSon]

Here is what is wrong...

I'm not a programmer.. but it seems the code Zabbix is now using for checking trigger dependencies within linked templates is definitely broke.

Here's a simplified example of what is happening:

- Template (1) is linked to both HOST (A) and HOST (B)
- Template (2) is only linked to HOST (A)
- I attempt to update a Trigger in Template (2) which contains a dependency to a Trigger in Template (1)
- ERROR: "Not all Templates are linked to host [ HOST (B) ]"
- I then link Template (2) to HOST (B) as well as HOST (A)
- I attempt to update the Trigger in Template (2)
- WORKS!

How does one go about reporting bugs?

Danny.

[Andreas Bollhalder]

Same with 2.0.4

Has this only be resolved in 1.8.4 and later ?

I get the message in 2.0.4 if I make a dependency of a trigger to a trigger of another template.

Any news ?

Thanks in advance.

Andreas

[jairoalves]

Can anyone confirm this problem still exists? I'm on 2.0.3.