Items and graphs dependency

[SithLord]

Hi,

I'm in the process of evaluating Zabbix to monitor and graph the servers I administer, so I'm playing around with it and create some real world examples to see Zabbix behaviour.

I found a very strange issue I would call a bug.

I've created Host1 and added 2 items (icmppingsec and sshperf). Then I created a graph to see the result.

Then, I created Host2 (external host, over internet) and added 1 item (ftpperf) and graph'ed this item in the same graph as before.

So far, so good with 3 lines updating every 30 seconds.

Then, I deleted Host2 and the WHOLE graph was deleted too! The 2 graph'ed items from Host1 disappearded as the graph was deleted!

I would expect Zabbix to only remove items associated with hosts and graphs associated with items, not the graph as a whole just because it references a no longer existing item.

[SithLord]

Hi,

Well, I'm quite disappointed... I tried the same configuration in 1.4 and the bug is still there. I find this very inconvenient!

In case the first message wasn't clear, try to reproduce the following :

- Create a host entry (Host1) and link some checks with it such as icmpping and tcp check port XX (could be SSH or something else)

- Create another host entry (Host2) and also link some checks (ping, whatever)

- Create a graph which contains the info from both Host1 (icmpping, tcp check) and Host2 (ping, etc...)

- Let some time roll to fill the graph and see the 3 nice lines

- Delete Host2

- Go to graphs and see ! The graph was also deleted and this is WRONG ! The 2 lines from Host1 (not deleted) should be there but this is not the case ! Deleting host2 also removes all "entries" associated with it. The graph is deleted instead of just being reconfigured (removing any reference from Host2)

Is this clearer now ?