Zabbix VMWare Datastore space monitoring

[Kevin Nelson]

I have the VMWare template monitoring my datastores with the default threshold of 10%. I have a couple of datastores within this set up to have a different threshold. I have tried cloning an existing 'Trigger Prototype' but I get an error each time. Is there a method to follow to do this or a better way to have a separate threshold for a datastore?
Thank you

[Markku]

What is the template you are using? I don't directly find a VMware template that has trigger prototype for datastore space.

But in general, usually disk space trigger prototypes use user macros with context in the expression: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...macros_context

Markku

[paulb007]

Hi

Just following up on this...

I see on the Windows and Linux Templates the following Triggers
WINDOWS - Trigger Expression
min(/Windows by Zabbix agent updated dashboards/vfs.fs.dependent.size[{#FSNAME},pused],5m)>{$VFS.FS.PUSED.MAX.WARN:"{#FSLABEL}({#FSNAME} )"}

Linux - Trigger Expression
min(/Linux by Zabbix agent updated dashboards/vfs.fs.dependent.size[{#FSNAME},pused],5m)>{$VFS.FS.PUSED.MAX.CRIT:"{#FSNAME}"}

However, the VMWARE Template (https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/...at=release/7.4)
Trigger Expression
last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE.UUID},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}

Based on this it seems that you cannot create different thresholds for different datastores... What I am wondering is, should the trigger have the {#DATASTORE.UUID} after the {$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}

Something like this
last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE.UUID},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN:"{#DATASTORE.UUID} "}

Thanks

[Markku]

Something like this
last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE.UUID},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN:"{#DATASTORE.UUID} "}

That would make it possible to customize the trigger threshold for each datastore, yes, by defining separate context macros for them.

(Edit: There was an extra space inside the quotes, but it could have been a typical error in this forum software)

Markku

[paulb007]

Is this something that should be added to official template? If so, is there a process to get the template updated? I think the Template VMware Hypervisor, and VMware FQDN would also need to be updated.

[Markku]

Feature request ticket for improving the official templates can be opened at https://support.zabbix.com/.

Markku