depends on this : ZBXNEXT-337

This is something I'd be very interested in. It's good to see the improvements in 2.0 - with the automatic inventory. But half the things we've collected from the agents. e.g CPU spec, RAM spec, HD spec, graphics card, BIOS version, motherboard spec etc have no use! The only one I've currently got in use is OS.

It would also be good to be able to customise the inventory overview screen (rather than the specific host), to only view certain types of information.

This is something we would use.

We are using VB scripts to get inventory information back from windows systems, but I'm having problems inserting the received data into the correct title. For example we can pull back information about memory DIMMs but don't have a relevant name to assign it to (at present I use Type)

Being able to configure the overview screen would be great too as differing teams have different requirements for looking at data.

Another good idea would be to be able to use the .csv output feature in this screen so you can provide reports.

Zabbix V2 is great, I really appreciate the new features.

Regards,

Doug

I think that would also greatly simplify connections to CMDBs like i-doit or iTop .

This is the feature what we need too.
For us, the names of the fields for inventory are not useful.

Our server are (nearly all) virtual. We don't need an location, contact, single software fields or so.
What we need are fields for CPU, RAM, IPs,...

A good topic is if is possible to delete unnecessary fields.

An important thing: we use ubuntu server mit zabbix from repo -> the changes must be available after an update!
Thanks.

Regards
Karsten

As a workaround, we use translation for Host Inventory fields customization ... off course, limitation is obvious, you don't see same fields names depending on the choosen langage.

+1 for this, you know, ability to customize is the key to make automation for the service management more fancy!

Very usefull feature and as I said in othe feature request. Good idea is to od as crowdfunding page for each feature request and contribute on this feature as we need.

I found nice page http://www.zabbix.com/development_services.php where on the bottom of this page is possibility to Contribute on specific feature. I think that it can be way how to promote some feature requests and to do something like crowdfunding on specific feature. Zabbix dev setup price and we can contribute on this feature I think it can be good way how to pay for each feature and to to pay whole development by one customer.

+1. This is a very old request and can turn out to be most useful feature like LLD.
Hope to see it soon !

I agree. Very useful feature still missing in Zabbix.

It is good practice to express wanting a feature by voting instead of commenting
However, if this does still not feel expressive enough, there's still the option of (co-)sponsoring development.

Outstanding suggestion.
Today we achieve this by manually editing php files, but it creates problems when we need to update zabbix's version.
We just started to use Zabbix Server and Zabbix Web inside containers, and without the ability to customize Inventory fields by GUI and store that configuration in MySQL, in every version change we need to customize it again.

Any news about this?

Yes, hardcoded fields does not fit our need at all.

Meanwhile, for those who haven't seen it, here's another request for this feature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLyy6xoZjM

Just wanted to add my 2 cents here. Love the inventory in Zabbix, literally always set it up. But if you've ever worked with a switching stack of 7 switches and you want to add all of their Serial Numbers then what?

Well, you can use the Software application fields maybe? Because there is only two Serial Number fields. Shouldn't be too much of an overhaul to add a feature for anyone that wants more than 2 serial numbers or any other possible input field.

Time to allow us the ability to choose our own fields and field names!

A feature 12 years in the making here...
We love you Zabbix...please don't leave us out in the cold! We use Zabbix for AV Device monitoring...AV devices have odd static data (inventory fields) that we need to capture and that doesn't make sense to be in items/time series, yet we're stuck keeping it there and there alone. Pleeeease give us custom inventory defined at the Template level? While you're at it, maybe let us dynamically set some fields and manually set others...not all or nothing. A checkbox next to the field would do!! I'm speaking at the premiere AV industry conference on monitoring in AV and will be demo'ing Zabbix for this use case, and I'm excited to continue having great reasons to choose Zabbix

👀 Looks like it's on the roadmap again 

guess it's been moved to 7.x release - see page 40

On the  Roadmap the feature is planned for 7.0 and "in design" and on the Keynote for 7.x.
What is the planned release for this feature?