graph-sets?

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:06 am

I have a bunch of graph templates and data templates that refer to net-snmp 'extend' MIB entries on our servers. They tend to come in groups:
qmail queuesize, smtp concurrency, pop3 concurrency and so on, all together.

What I'd like is a way to add groups of graphs to a host, all in one go. Like Host Templates, except that they can be overlaid more than one per host. I have a host that needs the DNS graph-set and the Qmail graph-set, but another one has Qmail and NNTPCache.

Currently, as far as I know, the only way to do this is graph-by-graph and datasource by datasource, which is pretty time-consuming.

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:18 am

Howie wrote:I have a bunch of graph templates and data templates that refer to net-snmp 'extend' MIB entries on our servers. They tend to come in groups:
qmail queuesize, smtp concurrency, pop3 concurrency and so on, all together.

What I'd like is a way to add groups of graphs to a host, all in one go. Like Host Templates, except that they can be overlaid more than one per host. I have a host that needs the DNS graph-set and the Qmail graph-set, but another one has Qmail and NNTPCache.

Currently, as far as I know, the only way to do this is graph-by-graph and datasource by datasource, which is pretty time-consuming.

Why not add a host template with the QMail graphs, then a host template with the DNS graphs. You can then assign the host to the QMail, create graphs, then assign it to the DNS host template, and create the graphs. We you assign it to one group, and then the other, it will retains the old graph associations from the last host template.

This is currently how we do it, as we have domain controllers, dns servers, IIS Servers, data servers, term servers, sql servers, and a few that are a mixture of a few of them. I have thought of integrating the ability to assign multiple host templates to a device, but its easy enough to just to it this way.

Post by **rony** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:32 am

Um...

Why don't you create more than one host template?

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:26 am

rony wrote:Um...

Why don't you create more than one host template?

Ummm, how do you apply more than one? There's just a single combo box in the Device screen.

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:43 am

Howie wrote:
rony wrote:Um...

Why don't you create more than one host template?
Ummm, how do you apply more than one? There's just a single combo box in the Device screen.

Edit Device / Click on first host template / click Save
Edit Device / Click on second host template / click Save

Post by **rony** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:50 am

Or you can create different host templates for you common monitoring types.

Or reapply the host templates.

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:55 am

rony wrote:Or you can create different host templates for you common monitoring types.

Or reapply the host templates.

The thing was that it was combinations of sets of graphs. No two systems have exactly the same set. I hadn't realised that you could change the Host Template and have it leave the old graphs behind. My mental model for it was more of a live-inheritance kind of thing - obviously that's just me

With that in mind, I'll make the host templates.

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:30 pm

There is a feature request for "sticky" templates. But, to date, it is not a priority.

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