Copying items
Looking at the same overview screen, the data seems easier to understand with textual hints provided for previously cryptic numeric values, but there's still a bit of not-so-perfect displaying. Notice the dashes displayed for the CPU load item for Another host and all other values for A test host. We didn't create corresponding items on both hosts, and item data is displayed here, which means missing items should be created for each host to gather the data. But recreating all items would be very boring. Luckily, there's a simple and straightforward solution to this problem.
Go to Configuration | Hosts and click on Items next to A test host. We had only a single item configured for this host, so mark the checkbox next to this item. Let's look at the available buttons at the bottom of the list again:
- Click on the Copy button:
With those items selected, do the following:
- Click on Copy below the item list.
- Choose Hosts in the Target type drop-down menu.
- Choose Linux servers in the Group? drop-down menu.
- Mark only the checkbox next to A test host, and click on Copy.
- After that, click on the Details link in the upper-right corner. Notice how all of the copied items are listed here. Let's take another look at Monitoring | Overview:
When you have looked at the data, click on one of the Zabbix agent version values:
Notice how this time there are no entries for graphs. Remember: graphs were only available for numeric data, so Monitoring | Latest data and these overview screen pop-up menus offer the value history only.