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[Zabbix-users] "composite" triggers / service groups?

[Kristian R. <kaw...@gm...>]

Folks;

I stumbled through the setup of host groups in zabbix which is
particularly powerful but I would need something one layer above this:
I am looking for something such as a "service group" which should
aggregate different services / triggers on various hosts into one
group, so that I can ...

- ... on a dashboard view visualize / see whether one of these "service
groups" is experiencing problems, and

- ... have some sort of history to easily determine how much downtime a
particular service group has seen.


What is the best approach of setting this up with zabbix? Right now, I
just stumbled across trigger dependencies which however seems to do
just the opposite of what I want - muting some dependent triggers
rather than introducing notification such as "group XY failed if any of
the services in the group failed".

Any ideas greatly appreciated. :)
Cheers,
Kristian

Re: [Zabbix-users] "composite" triggers / service groups?

[Jared W. <JWi...@eb...>]

Sounds like you want to look into IT Services. I haven't actually used them but maybe it will point you in the right direction until someone with more knowledge can come along and give you some better direction.

Jared Wilkinson | Infrastructure Engineer – Systems
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On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 5:17 AM -0700, "Kristian Rink" <kaw...@gm...<mailto:kaw...@gm...>> wrote:

Folks;

I stumbled through the setup of host groups in zabbix which is
particularly powerful but I would need something one layer above this:
I am looking for something such as a "service group" which should
aggregate different services / triggers on various hosts into one
group, so that I can ...

- ... on a dashboard view visualize / see whether one of these "service
groups" is experiencing problems, and

- ... have some sort of history to easily determine how much downtime a
particular service group has seen.


What is the best approach of setting this up with zabbix? Right now, I
just stumbled across trigger dependencies which however seems to do
just the opposite of what I want - muting some dependent triggers
rather than introducing notification such as "group XY failed if any of
the services in the group failed".

Any ideas greatly appreciated. :)
Cheers,
Kristian

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Re: [Zabbix-users] "composite" triggers / service groups?

[Kristian R. <kaw...@gm...>]

Jared;

first off, thanks a bunch for pointing me there. Meanwhile, playing a
bit with my installation, I also stumbled across "IT Services" and it
indeed seems pretty much what I want - thanks. :)

One question on IT Services however: I do have set up a small hierarchy
for one particular service and defined an acceptable uptime SLA of 99%.
IT Services overview tells me the service actually had 100% uptime even
while I am sure some of the included services definitely *did* have
downtimes throughout the time period in question. Severity is > WARNING
in all these cases too. Looking at the documentation in the wiki, I
don't see what else I might still want to mess with. Does "IT Services"
compute availability based on *old* data too, or do I need new data
(starting with setting up services) for this?

TIA and all the best,
Kristian

Re: [Zabbix-users] "composite" triggers / service groups?

[Jared W. <JWi...@eb...>]

This is where I hope someone with more familiarity with IT Services can chime in and help you. :D


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On 5/9/16, 9:02 AM, "Kristian Rink" <kaw...@gm...> wrote:

>Jared;
>
>first off, thanks a bunch for pointing me there. Meanwhile, playing a
>bit with my installation, I also stumbled across "IT Services" and it
>indeed seems pretty much what I want - thanks. :)
>
>One question on IT Services however: I do have set up a small hierarchy
>for one particular service and defined an acceptable uptime SLA of 99%.
>IT Services overview tells me the service actually had 100% uptime even
>while I am sure some of the included services definitely *did* have
>downtimes throughout the time period in question. Severity is > WARNING
>in all these cases too. Looking at the documentation in the wiki, I
>don't see what else I might still want to mess with. Does "IT Services"
>compute availability based on *old* data too, or do I need new data
>(starting with setting up services) for this?
>
>TIA and all the best,
>Kristian
>
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Re: [Zabbix-users] "composite" triggers / service groups?

[Michael H <mi...@we...>]

I can't say I have more experience but I have seen the same,
historically had downtime on a service, once I add the item to IT
Services it appears 100% up. I figured it's not checking the historic
data too.

Michael

On 09/05/16 15:17, Jared Wilkinson wrote:
> This is where I hope someone with more familiarity with IT Services can chime in and help you. :D
> 
> 
>  <http://oi65.tinypic.com/103g8kj.jpg>
> Jared Wilkinson | Infrastructure Engineer – Systems
> jwi...@eb... | (W) 205/981-4018 | (M) 205/259-9802
> 5724 US Highway 280 East, Birmingham, AL 35242, USA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/9/16, 9:02 AM, "Kristian Rink" <kaw...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> Jared;
>>
>> first off, thanks a bunch for pointing me there. Meanwhile, playing a
>> bit with my installation, I also stumbled across "IT Services" and it
>> indeed seems pretty much what I want - thanks. :)
>>
>> One question on IT Services however: I do have set up a small hierarchy
>> for one particular service and defined an acceptable uptime SLA of 99%.
>> IT Services overview tells me the service actually had 100% uptime even
>> while I am sure some of the included services definitely *did* have
>> downtimes throughout the time period in question. Severity is > WARNING
>> in all these cases too. Looking at the documentation in the wiki, I
>> don't see what else I might still want to mess with. Does "IT Services"
>> compute availability based on *old* data too, or do I need new data
>> (starting with setting up services) for this?
>>
>> TIA and all the best,
>> Kristian
>>
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>> Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of
>> your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and
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