Automatic trigger's dependency against proxy

[jbfavre]

Hello,
I manage servers which are spread into platforms. Each platform is monitored by a zabbix-proxy.

Last week-end, one of our proxy went down and I therefore got alerts for every single server monitored by the proxy, instead of only the proxy's alert.

I figured out that I forgot to put dependency against the proxy.
But That said, I also did not find any way to automatically get the dependency setted up.

First point: since some servers are monitored by a proxy and some are not (typically zabbix SQL servers), I just can't set up dependency inside the template or I'll have to have one template per service per proxy.

Second point: as far as I know, there are no macro available which represent the proxy monitoring the host and even if there is, I don't know how to implement following rule:
"For a given trigger, if the host is monitored by a proxy then trigger depends on proxy availability; if the host is not monitored by a proxy, then there are no dependency against proxy."

So: is there any way to implement it into zabbix core ? I think this could be a nice feature to minimize setup cost

Regards,
JB

[maxlock]

Re: Automatic trigger's dependency against proxy

Hi,

I'm in exactly the same situation, this would be a really helpful feature.

-Cheers Max.

[c.mammoli]

Same here. Since you English seems better then mine I suggest you to open a feature request on Jira

[jbfavre]

Now done: https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-1891
Let's sse what happen