[ZBXNEXT-1262] nested host groups Created: 2012 Jun 13  Updated: 2022 Jul 05  Resolved: 2017 Feb 14

Status: Closed
Project: ZABBIX FEATURE REQUESTS
Component/s: API (A), Documentation (D), Frontend (F), Installation (I), Server (S)
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 3.2.0

Type: New Feature Request Priority: Minor
Reporter: richlv Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 93
Labels: flexibility, grouping, nested
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Attachments: Text File 14_zabbix-2.0.6-frontend_group-groups-2.patch     PNG File after.png     PNG File before.png     PNG File error.png     PNG File incorrect-alignent.png     PNG File ms_search_results.png     PNG File multiselect.png     PNG File permissions.png     PNG File zbx_nested_hostgroup.png    
Issue Links:
Causes
causes ZBX-20943 Long hostgroup names in LLD hostgroup... Closed
Duplicate
is duplicated by ZBXNEXT-3038 Groups containing other groups Closed
is duplicated by ZBXNEXT-2153 Groups containing other groups Closed
Team: Team A
Sprint: Sprint 1

 Description   

It should be possible to nest host groups.
There should be a hierarchical display for viewing such groups in most places.
All group dropdown selectors should show groups hierarchically whenever possible (a lot of subgroups could expand them a lot).
Circular nesting should be checked and prohibited.
Must perform well with large amount of groups and hosts in them in all locations in frontend and in server, where relevant.

open questions :

Should groups be able to contain both groups and hosts ?
Should group be able to be a member of several parent groups ?
What about upgrades - maybe it's worth providing simple upgrade path for people who use some notation schema currently (for example, allowing definition of group separator, thus group "UPS :: Something" group would create two groups - "UPS" and "Something", where "Something" would be a subgroup of "UPS").

open questions, large areas :

Permissions (general, global scripts, maintenance, actions...)
Action conditions
Action targets (groups)
Maintenance
Dropdown entry "all"
Filtering (almost everywhere - should it include subgroup elements etc...)
Search result displaying (for host groups)
Displaying in network maps (to include subgroup triggers or not, what about host group element displaying...)

forum threads :

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11425
http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17559



 Comments   
Comment by Henrik Johansen [ 2012 Jun 13 ]

Since this is a rather fundamental change of the way people currently interact with the ZBX front-end I would envision that this need to be done in smaller steps.

Perhaps we should simply introduce a new type of Host Group (a "Host Group Container"?) that Host Groups can be flagged as - the flag would enforce that a Host Group Container only
can contain other Host Groups. These Host Group Containers could then be displayed as additional drop-down menu items where required for filtering, assignment, etc.

Permissions and action conditions/ targets are our primary headache right now - a simple inheritance model from top to bottom would most likely we the simplest solution and would scratch our particular itch well.

After that, network map display is the next major issue where nesting should be supported in our use case.

Comment by Vitaly Nikolaev [ 2013 Jan 03 ]

I like how groups done in Cisco ACS:

GroupA.GroupB.GroupC
.GroupB.GroupE
.GroupD
.GroupX

Each subgroup (to the right), inherit security settings from parent group. If I let SysadminA read permission on
GroupB - he will get read permission also to GroupA.GroupB.GroupC and GroupA.GroupB.GroupE

In GUI for example if I look hosts in "GroupB" il get summary host list form GroupA.GroupB, GroupA.GroupB.GroupC, GroupA.GroupB.GroupE groups

Any group can have hosts,

As for making change compatible with current system ? It is compatible, current Groups will become root Groups.

Comment by Stefan [ 2013 Aug 21 ]

any news about that? will it exist in zabbix 2.2?

Comment by Stefan [ 2013 Nov 28 ]

why you dont add a column something like 'parent(NULL)'
in this columm there are the parent-hostgroupids..

otherwise you can use ltree
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ltree.html)

Comment by Ghozlane TOUMI [ 2014 Jan 03 ]

As a workaround, I have a patch that adds a 1 level grouping for groups, maps and screens.
It's a .js based solution, cosmetic only but may help some of you while waiting for a true solution to this problem...
its tested on 2.0.x, but should work in 2.2 as it's a standalone .js

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43743

Comment by Marc [ 2014 Jan 03 ]

ghoz, why not attaching the patch/images to this ticket?

Comment by Ghozlane TOUMI [ 2014 Jan 03 ]

Meh.. the patch doesn't really answer the feature request, it's just a cosmetic / usability improvement...
But well there it is...

Comment by Adail Horst [ 2014 Jan 04 ]

Yeap.... the patch is only a cosmetic. to solve this is required change the database + API. Because the relation between groups is not so "named logical".

Comment by Marc [ 2014 Jan 04 ]

Sure. Anyhow, I think it addresses the issue and might for some be beneficial in comparison to have nothing.

Comment by Adail Horst [ 2014 Jan 04 ]

Yeap. Is a good temporary soluction for a specific cenario.

Comment by Dawid van Wyngaard [ 2014 Mar 27 ]

Zabbix Dev Team,

Any indication when this feature / fix will be implemented in a next release? Zabbix 2.4? If so, what is the time frame for this feature enhancement / request to be released?

Thanks,

Dawid

Comment by richlv [ 2014 Mar 27 ]

this is currently not on the roadmap

Comment by jj [ 2015 Mar 20 ]

this would be great

Comment by James Vajoumounien [ 2015 Nov 02 ]

+1
Any news about this feature?

Comment by Marc [ 2015 Nov 06 ]

jvajoumounien,

as richlv already said, it's not on the roadmap yet.
To get it there maybe consider to (co-)sponsor development.

Comment by J. van Stijn [ 2015 Dec 13 ]

+1 for me!

This would be so helpful!

Comment by Oleg Egorov (Inactive) [ 2016 Aug 17 ]

(1) [A] Possible to create host group with name "test//test"

RESOLVED IN r61767

iivs Possible to create "test/test/" with ending slash.

REOPENED

gunarspujats RESOLVED in r61896

iivs CLOSED

Comment by Oleg Egorov (Inactive) [ 2016 Aug 18 ]

(2) [F] I have groups:
Latvia
Latvia/Riga

Issues:

  • Search by "/*" return "More matches found", but should be "no matches found".
  • Search by "//*" return all nested host groups, in my case return "Latvia/Riga", but should be "no matches found".

Only if searching by "///*" multiselect return correct result.

Function naming for multiselect, removeSubgroupPostfix and hasSubgroupPostfix please change to removeSubGroupPostfix and hasSubGroupPostfix

gunarspujats RESOLVED in r61788

iivs The order of host groups is incorrect when child is added first and parent is added afterwards.

REOPENED

gunarspujats As discussed with sasha it's not a regression. WON'T FIX.

Comment by Ivo Kurzemnieks [ 2016 Aug 19 ]

(3) [F] I have a host group named "A". Type "A" in multiselect. See many choices to choose from. It looks for also "a" in any name. Choose something else using mouse and click. The group "A" gets selected anyway.

gunarspujats RESOLVED in r61815

iivs Seems to work, but now there is a different problem. Let's say we start typing "Latvia" and navigate with arrow key down to "Latvia/Riga", but I change my mind and click with mouse "Latvia/Venstpils" instead. The name "Latvia/Riga" is cleared, but "Latvia/Venstpils" was not chosen. This problem appears on FF. Chome, Opera and latest IE works fine.

REOPENED

gunarspujats RESOLVED in r61870

iivs CLOSED

Comment by Ivo Kurzemnieks [ 2016 Aug 19 ]

(4) [F] Translation string changes.
Strings added:

  • Duplicate "%1$s" value "%2$s" for host group.
  • Empty group ID.
  • Host group is missing parameters: %1$s
  • Incorrect group ID.
  • No "%1$s" given for group.
  • invalid group name "%1$s"
  • must be a string

Strings deleted:

  • Calculated permissions
  • Composing permissions
  • Host group name cannot be empty.

gunarspujats CLOSED

Comment by Oleg Egorov (Inactive) [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(5) [F] Error after adding new element via multiselect in user group permission tab.
I have host groups:
test
test/test

Trying to add permissions for user group "Zabbix Administrators".

array_fill(): Number of elements must be positive [usergrps.php:456 → array_fill() in usergrps.php:456]
array_combine() expects parameter 2 to be array, boolean given [usergrps.php:457 → array_combine() in usergrps.php:457]
array_diff_key(): Argument #2 is not an array [usergrps.php:460 → array_diff_key() in usergrps.php:460]
Argument 1 passed to findParentAndChildsForUpdate() must be of the type array, null given, called in C:\xampp\htdocs\ZBXNEXT-1262\frontends\php\usergrps.php on line 462 and defined [usergrps.php:462 → findParentAndChildsForUpdate() in include\users.inc.php:291]
array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given [usergrps.php:462 → findParentAndChildsForUpdate() → array_keys() in include\users.inc.php:300]
Argument 1 passed to findParentAndChildsForUpdate() must be of the type array, null given, called in C:\xampp\htdocs\ZBXNEXT-1262\frontends\php\usergrps.php on line 473 and defined [usergrps.php:473 → findParentAndChildsForUpdate() in include\users.inc.php:291]
array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given [usergrps.php:473 → findParentAndChildsForUpdate() → array_keys() in include\users.inc.php:300]
array_diff_key(): Argument #2 is not an array [usergrps.php:480 → array_diff_key() in usergrps.php:480]
Invalid argument supplied for foreach() [ in usergrps.php:480]

oleg.egorov & iivs RESOLVED IN r61813

iivs Problem was due to PHP < v5.6 function array_fill() works a bit differently.
CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(7) [F] Controls are not properly aligned

PavelA RESOLVED in r61827

iivs Older IEs had problems with radio buttons displayed at the bottom.
RESOLVED in r61829

sasha RESOLVED in r61895, r61901

iivs CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(8) [F] Cannot add permissions to a Group/*

1. Open Permissions tab in "Zabbix administrators" user group
2. Type "Zabbix servers/*", click [Read-write] and Add
3.

oleg.egorov Don't work numeric host group in User group permission tab

iivs No, it's not a numeric problem. The groups with default permissions "None" were not displayed and all other groups had same permissions. The problem was with groups that have no parent and the "all permissions are the same" was not calculated properly for them.
RESOLVED in r61823

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Andris Zeila [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(9) [I] Create database patch to increase groups.name and group_prototype.name fields to 255 characters.
RESOLVED in r61814

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(10) [F] The length of host group name and host group prototype name must be increased to 255 chars

iivs The limit is increased to host group names. Host group prototype names are generated by macros.
RESOLVED r61819

sasha The length of these fields are not updated:

  • Configuration -> Host form: "New group"
  • Configuration -> Trigger form: "New group"
  • Configuration -> Host prototype form: "Group prototypes"

REOPENED

iivs RESOLVED in r61828

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(11) [F] usrgrps.php: these input parameters are not used and can be removed

users, new_right, right_to_del, group_users_to_del, register, del_user_group, del_user_media, del_group_user, change_password, cancel

iivs RESOLVED in r61826

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(12) [F] Checkboxes always unchecked now in User group form

iivs RESOLVED in r61835

sasha Second checkbox (debug_mode) also always unchecked

REOPENED

iivs RESOLVED in r61843

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(13) [F] Already deleted users appears in the user list when error occurred while updating user group

iivs RESOLVED in r61836

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(14) frontends/php/usergrps.php:390

$dbUsers = DBselect(
    'SELECT DISTINCT u.userid '.
    ' FROM users u,users_groups ug '.
    ' WHERE u.userid=ug.userid '.
        ' AND ug.usrgrpid='.zbx_dbstr($data['usrgrpid'])
);
while ($dbUser = DBfetch($dbUsers)) {
    $data['group_users'][$dbUser['userid']] = $dbUser['userid'];
}

if (hasRequest('form_refresh')) {
    $data['group_users'] =  getRequest('group_users', []);
}
  1. SQL statement must be executed only when form_refresh and group_users are not set
  2. SQL statement can be simplified
     'SELECT ug.userid'.
        ' FROM users_groups ug'.
        ' WHERE ug.usrgrpid='.zbx_dbstr($data['usrgrpid'])
    
  3. keys of $data['group_users'] array are not used

iivs RESOLVED in r61844, r61846

sasha

  1. operation is repeated twice
    frontends/php/usergrps.php:370
    'group_users' => getRequest('group_users', []),

    frontends/php/usergrps.php:390

    $data['group_users'] = getRequest('group_users', []);
  2. double-space in SQL statement
    frontends/php/usergrps.php:398
    ' FROM users_groups ug '.
    ' WHERE ug.usrgrpid='.zbx_dbstr($data['usrgrpid'])
    

REOPENED

iivs RESOLVED in r61849

sasha when create new user group

Undefined index: group_users [usergrps.php:610 → CView->render() → include() in include/views/administration.usergroups.edit.php:51]

REOPENED

iivs RESOLVED in r61854

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(15) [F] frontends/php/usergrps.php:404

$db_rights = DBselect(
    'SELECT r.rightid,r.permission,r.groupid AS user_groupid,g.groupid AS host_groupid,g.name'.
    ' FROM groups g'.
        ' LEFT JOIN rights r ON r.id=g.groupid AND r.groupid='.zbx_dbstr($data['usrgrpid'])
);

while ($db_right = DBfetch($db_rights)) {
    $data['group_rights'][$db_right['name']] = [
        'rights' => ($db_right['rightid'] == 0) ? PERM_NONE : $db_right['permission'],
        'name' => $db_right['name'],
        'host_groupid' => $db_right['host_groupid']
    ];
}

$data['group_rights'] = getRequest('group_rights', $data['group_rights']);
  1. SQL statement must be executed only when group_rights is not set
  2. SQL: user_groupid is not used
  3. host_groupid must be renamed into groupid

iivs RESOLVED in r61847

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(16) [F] Why one entity has several names?

  1. 'host_groupid' => $host_group['groupid']
  2. ${color:red}ms_ids = getRequest('groupids', []);
  3. ${color:red}ms_groupids = getRequest('groupids_subgroups', []);
  4. ${color:red}ls_groupids = getRequest('group_permissions', []);
    ...

sasha RESOLVED in r61866

iivs CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 22 ]

(17) [F] frontends/php/usergrps.php:449

  1. this code must be rewritten using array_fill_keys() function (http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-fill-keys.php)
  2. if statements are useless here
if ($ms_ids) {
    $new_permissions = array_fill(0, count($ms_ids), $data['new_permission']);
    $ms_ids = array_combine($ms_ids, $new_permissions);
}
if ($ms_groupids) {
    $new_permissions_groups = array_fill(0, count($ms_groupids), $data['new_permission']);
    $ms_groupids = array_combine($ms_groupids, $new_permissions_groups);
}

iivs RESOLVED in r61848

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 23 ]

(18) [F] $data['usrgrp'] is not used in the view. It can be rewritten using a local variable.

iivs RESOLVED in r61850

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 23 ]

(19) [F] implemented alternative solution to manage user group permissions. Тhe code was reduced by 143 lines.

RESOLVED in r61866

iivs Group list gets corrupted and undefined indexes appear in host group form upon error.

REOPENED

sasha RESOLVED in r61868

iivs The alternative solution works a bit differently now. A child group that has permissions "NONE" and no direct parent, is displayed in the list.

  • Example: "A/B/C" has permissions "NONE" and no parents. Neither "A" or "A/B".
  • Example: "D/E/F" has permissions "NONE" and has no direct parent "E/F", but has "D" with same permissions "NONE".

REOPENED

sasha Thanks! RESOLVED in r61891

iivs Nice work.
CLOSED

Comment by Oleg Egorov (Inactive) [ 2016 Aug 23 ]

(20) [F] Multiselect in host mass update form suggest new elements.

gunarspujats As discussed with sasha hostgroup name validation is done on API side.
WON'T FIX.

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 23 ]

(21) [F] Added new function getMultiselectGroupIds(). Old function findParentAndChildsForUpdate() must be removed.

gunarspujats RESOLVED in r61878

sasha TESTED Have a look at my changes in r61894

iivs CLOSED

Comment by Andris Zeila [ 2016 Aug 24 ]

(22) [S] Groups created by server during low level host discovery must inherit permissions from their direct parents.
RESOLVED in r61893

sasha CLOSED with small fix in r61927

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 24 ]

(23) [S] syntax of the new groups must be validated

RESOLVED in r61922

sasha CLOSED

Comment by Ivo Kurzemnieks [ 2016 Aug 25 ]

(24) [F] Is it supposed to be like this?

sasha RESOLVED in r61944

iivs Thanks! CLOSED

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 25 ]

Server side was successfully tested!

Comment by Ivo Kurzemnieks [ 2016 Aug 25 ]

Frontend tested

Comment by Alexander Vladishev [ 2016 Aug 25 ]

Available in pre-3.2.0beta1 r61951.

Comment by Ivo Kurzemnieks [ 2016 Aug 26 ]

(25) [D] API documentation added

gunarspujats CLOSED

Comment by Filipe Paternot [ 2016 Aug 30 ]

Question: a calculated item works on toplevel group and includes all items below it?

Comment by richlv [ 2016 Aug 30 ]

fpaternot, did you mean an aggregate item ?

Comment by Filipe Paternot [ 2016 Aug 30 ]

Yes @richlv. Aggregate checks using group functions like grpsum/grpavg...

Just to be accurate now, https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/config/items/itemtypes/aggregate

Comment by richlv [ 2016 Aug 30 ]

that's a good question which one might or might not have been able to find out in the specification
in any case, it seems like a good candidate to document somewhere proper - probably in whatsnew, aggregate item and nested group pages ?

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 12 ]

Hi, i have now checked on zabbix 3.2.0rc1 but i don't understand how dos it work.
On my mind i supposed this feature work like that:
1- Create a Host Group called "Linux" with an included host
2- Create a main level Host Group called "Prod" to include the previous Host Group "Linux" and in that case the host group inherit the host from "Linux" host group

from my test this flow is not possible, is correct?

The only way to work seems to assign the single host to both "host Group", one called "Linux" and another one called "Prod/Linux" but i do not understand what benefit we have to the old implementation, may be using through API?
Could be possible to extend or clarify the documentation?
Thanks so much

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 12 ]

Nested Host Group View

Comment by Ivo Kurzemnieks [ 2016 Sep 12 ]

Hello, dimitri.bellini! No, hosts are not inherited. The inheritance works for permissions and only forward. Meaning that first a parent group must be created. Then, when creating a child group, it will inherit permissions from parent group. If a child group was created first, and then the parent group, permissions to parent group are not inherited from child group. And for example, let's say that a parent group "Prod" has read permissions and a group "Prod/Linux" has read-write permissions. Then creating, a new group "Prod/Windows" this group will gain read permissions from parent. And so will the hosts in this group. Changing permissions to "Prod" we have option to overwrite permissions to all child groups or only the parent group. Which means that future child groups will have different permissions. Hosts, however, can be assigned to multiple groups just like before. And only highest permission from all groups is taken into account. No changes there.

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 12 ]

Hi Ivo,
i think is a very strange implementation because usually, when we talk about "Nested Host Group" we talk about group a logical elements and maybe it is also related to privileges but not strictly only.
Also from the page "whats new 3.2.0" the title is "Nested host groups" and not "Nested host groups permission", if this implementation is only intended to "Nested host groups permissions" please clarify the related documentation because is not so clear from my point of view.
Thanks so much

PS: At the conference on Alexei's speech, i have supposed he talked to a real Nested Host Group solutions

Comment by richlv [ 2016 Sep 12 ]

i'm a bit concerned about this part :

If a child group was created first, and then the parent group, permissions to parent group are not inherited from child group

how transparent is this ? it seems that user would have no indication on what's going on there.

regarding host membership, i'd have to agree with dimitri.bellini - if actual membership is not included in this issue, that prevents aggregate items, unsupported item count items and a few more features from working as expected.

it should be clearly documented.

in this case, a specification would have helped to set the expectations right.

Comment by Martins Valkovskis [ 2016 Sep 13 ]

(27) [D] Documentation for this feature has been clarified:

RESOLVED

sasha Excellent! But information about new possibilities of a filtration is missing. I.e. in multiselects we can select group with all subgroups. For example: Latvia/* or Latvia/Riga/*.

Scope:
Monitoring->Dashboard
Monitoring->Latest data
Monitoring->Problems
Reports->Top 100 triggers

REOPENED

martins-v Updated sections:

RESOLVED

iivs Looks good to me.
CLOSED

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 13 ]

Hi Martins,
thanks for the updated documentation but this is a very "difficult" understanding feature.
Because you say "Having a built-in mechanism for a logical grouping of host groups is something that is very much required, especially in larger organizations" and yes this is what we want but after that you say "first steps towards nested host groups have been taken by allowing a nested representation of host groups and aligning the permission schema to host group nesting" so this first step is only usable for host/host group permissions.
So my concern is, we can still call "Nested representation of host groups" on "whats new" page? From my point of view is better to hide this new feature to not create false hope or to create misunderstanding.
But this is only my opinion
After all my words, thanks for your great hard work and is pleasure to with the Zabbix Team!

Comment by Martins Valkovskis [ 2016 Sep 13 ]

Dimitri,
We cannot hide this feature because it was approved and developed and presumably bringing benefit to some users. But, other than that, I understand your concern. Intuitively a different implementation is expected.

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 13 ]

Hi Martin,
I have understood but i suggest to reduce the enphasys of that feature to reduce every other kind of discussion I talk about this part extracted from the press-release "Now the navigation process across Zabbix monitored devices is also simplified with the appearance of nested host groups."

Comment by richlv [ 2016 Sep 19 ]

looks like "Fix Version/s" has not been set for this issue, and it is still in an "open" state.
if it was included in 3.2, those two things do not seem to be correct.

Comment by richlv [ 2016 Sep 19 ]

this introduced a typo in a variable name : ZBX-11238

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 21 ]

As discussed with Alexei Vladishev, this new feature is the real implementation of the "Nested Host Group" and is not only limited to "permissions". So i hope in a new implementation for the Web Frontend (better user experience) maybe on zabbix 3.2.1 or 3.4.
Thanks for you great work!

Comment by Aleksandrs Saveljevs [ 2016 Sep 21 ]

Not sure, but maybe ZBXNEXT-3451 is meant to improve it further.

Comment by Dimitri Bellini [ 2016 Sep 21 ]

Yes it is another Web Frontend handicap of the actual implementation but for example is not possible to disable/enable all hosts of a main HostGroup A. Below example

Main Group : Production
SubGroup: Linux (5 hosts)
SubGroup: Windows (10 hosts)

From Zabbix Configuration->Host Group i will supposed to view all hosts belong to "Production" provided by the two subgroup "Linux" and "Windows" for a total of 15 hosts. Actually we see a void "Production" hostgroup and other two host group.

So a better Web Frontend implementation is need for the User, this my personal opinion

Comment by Mehmet Ali Buyukkarakas [ 2017 Mar 14 ]

Personally I have also opinions and feelings about the nested groups.

Its very usefull and one of the biggest tactical things about managing lots of hosts and objects. But not that way.

'Nesting' means for me also grouping and filtering.

When I saw the results of this issue, first I didnt understood the reason. Today either....

Thank you for your effort but we need a real and working nested group design.

Best regards.

Comment by J. van Stijn [ 2017 Apr 28 ]

Ok, so I just finished my long postponed upgrade to 3.2.5

I was wondering why the "nested groups" thing wasn't working as I was expecting.
As I didn't read up too well on this item (aside from "topic closed, we fixed it") I went back to this item and read the comments. Upon reading the comments I now understand that the current implementation is totally not where I put my "+1" in for. Basically I couldn't agree more with Dimitri Bellini!

It's a bit strange that the current item is closed because the implementation doesn't fit the original description at all.
When you read the second and third line of the original post: "There should be a hierarchical display for viewing such groups in most places.
All group dropdown selectors should show groups hierarchically whenever possible (a lot of subgroups could expand them a lot)." This clearly does not speak solely about group permissions but nested groups throughout Zabbix (especially graphically imho).

Oh well. At least it's a step in the right direction. Can't wait for some real nested (intuitive) group feature.

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