API methods host.update and host.massupdate does not have tag replace, add features. Zabbix frontend provides such options.

After implementation of ZBXNEXT-7018, tab Templates for Hosts and Linked templates for Templates were removed and their content was moved to the 1st tab of the configuration form. Please make the same changes in the host and template Mass update forms.

I would like the ability to mass update discovery rules, for example, to add an SNMPv2 check with values. In instances where you may have hundreds of discovery rules that need updating, manually clicking isn't fun, and writing a complicated script and/or SQL query is extremely high effort and high risk.

Hi,

i need to create a tree structure with the host groups, but at the moment it is not possible to automate the process. 

The step that i do at the moment are the following:

1- i have created a tree structure with host groups (see screenshot_1)

2- i need to create a granular permission so that the user can see the full tree or only a branch, so i try to create some user groups. (see screenshot_2)

3- but in permissions if i select a group that have some subgrups, put the flag on "include subgroups" and click add (see screenshot_3)

4-The group is added in the permission but without including subgroups (see screenshot_4)

5-So i need to go back to host groups and add the flag on "Apply permissions and tag filters to all subgroups" (see screenshot_5)

6-After that in the created user group i start to see the "(including subgroups)"  (see screenshot_6)

Because in my infrastructure i need to create a very big tree with thousand of hostgroups. I want to know if is possible implement in the future version of zabbix the possibility to have the mass update function in the frontend so i can update multiple hostgroups with this flag at the same time or if is possible to add the possibility to set this flag with zabbix API, because at the moment with the API i can only create the group and add hosts or other groups.

Thanks in advance.

Pietro

In Zabbix Version 4.0.x it is only possible to replace the whole set of tags for triggers.

It would be a nice feature to have the following possibilities modifying dedicated tags.

replace = replace only the tag and value for the given tag-name
replace all tags = replace the whole set (like how it is now) with new given set
add = add a tag with given value to the existing tags
remove = remove only the given tags from the tag set

This is already in non-LTS Zabbix 4.2.

Timeout field is missing in Mass update form for HTTP agent items. 

In Items or Item prototype Mass update form, when some Type is chosen,
below leave only fields that are valid for that Type.

For the moment mass update works inconsistent for different lists and is not user friendly at all.
For example, in Items mass update Replace Applications: If checkbox is checked and multi-select left empty, submitting such form will remove all applications from all selected items. (All apps will be replaced to empty value). There will be no any success message or alert about you are going to delete applications.

It might be useful to have two fields for replacing - which item replace to what.

Also checkbox "Select all", like "Replace all" to... , "Remove All", etc. might be useful.

In case when we are about to delete some big amount of items Alert message might be shown.

When adding applications we can create new app in the same filed, but when replacing it is not possible.

These features need to be standardized and fetched to consistency, also made more user friendly and predictable.

Currently 'select all' button in Configuration -> hosts or similar only selects objects on the page you view while default is 50 objects per page.

Problem: You have to go through all the pages and select objects there before applying a mass update to all filter results.

Suggested solution:

Once 'select all' is clicked there should be an extra option/button that should appear with 'select all filter results' option. By clicking that, all objects on all pages are selected.

Then you can proceed to mass updating objects without any more movement.

Case 1: You have 500+ hosts in host group A. You need to move them from one proxy to another.

• Apply filter to host group A.
• Click 'select all', then click 'select all filter results'
• Click mass update. Change proxy.

Case 2:  You have 1000+ items where you want set trends parameter to 2 years.

• Apply filter in Configuration -> Items.
• Click 'select all', then click 'select all filter results'
• Click mass update. Change trends param

Case 3: You want to add additional event tag to 1000+ triggers

• Apply filter in Configuration -> Triggers.
• Click 'select all', then click 'select all filter results'
• Click mass update. Add new tag

Case 4: You want to assign new template to 130 hosts in host group A

• Apply filter in Configuration -> Hosts to match host group A.
• Click 'select all', then click 'select all filter results'
• Click mass update. Assign new template

How about supporting bulk updates of URLs in triggers?

trigger mass update should allow changing comment/description.

specific usecase - removing an incorrect comment on a large number of triggers.

ZBXNEXT-283 asks for mass update for the event generation option - it might be worth considering all remaining trigger fields at the same time

in some cases it might be beneficial to mass update users - for example, adding a bunch of users to a specific group (like "disabled), or changing their user level

Trigger massupdate needs to support the update for tags and manual close.

Currently trigger.update allows working with only one id at a time without being able to update an array of triggers.
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.2/manual/api/reference/trigger/update

example:

{
    "jsonrpc":  "2.0",
    "method":  "trigger.update",
    "params":  {
                   "triggerid":  [
                                     "100100000048256",
                                     "100100000048257"
                                 ],
                   "status":  1
               },
    "id":  "2",
    "auth":  "266421fd8fcb977e971300b2bfbce6cc"
}

will return invalid parameters while

{
    "jsonrpc":  "2.0",
    "method":  "trigger.update",
    "params":  {
                   "triggerid":  "100100000048256",
                   "status":  1
               },
    "id":  "2",
    "auth":  "266421fd8fcb977e971300b2bfbce6cc"
}

works fine

support for mass updating network discovery rules could be useful.
primary candidates - delay, proxy, ip range
maybe also uniqueness criteria

mass update should be available for templates, too - my primary usecase being group membership changing

It would be really nice to have the possibility of (mass-)resetting inherited/linked elements back to the parent configuration.

would be nice to get mass update for lld rules themselves. it could include item type, update interval, retention period, snmp community/port

Adding lots of similar hosts to a network map, creating links and binding triggers to links is a quite boring task.
It would be very convenient to perform these tasks with the power of mass update.

For example, a user goes to Configuration -> Hosts, selects hosts, that should be added to a network map.
Then in Mass update, among all the options, a user will see a new option: "Add to a network map..."
After specifying a map, another new option becomes available: "Create a link with...", so that a user could
choose a map element to link with the selected elements.
Than, if a user selected a map element to create links with, another new option becomes available:
"Add triggers to links", that shows a list of templated triggers, that exist for all of the selected hosts. If the
selected hosts have no common triggers, the list of triggers would be empty.

It is currently not possible to Mass update prototype items. A Mass update of prototype triggers however is possible.

Suppose you have created a bunch of net.dns[] items. Then you noticed that you actually wanted to have net.dns.record[] items. Instead of clicking through each item and correcting the keys manually, it would be nice to do a mass update of item keys with "s/net.dns/net.dns.record/".

it should be possible to mass update item key as well.

rationale - updating it on multiple hosts/templates, especially if using various macros

Hey,

It'd be handy to have the ability to mass assign/update macros on hosts.

Thanks

Documenation states:
The following macros are all equivalent, because they have the same context: {$MACRO:A}, {$MACRO: A} and {$MACRO:"A"}.

However this is not fully taken into account when trying to mass-remove matching macros from hosts or templates via mass update.

Steps to reproduce:

• Add {$MACRO:"abc"} to some host or template, {$MACRO: abc} for another.
• From the list, mark the hosts and click on "Mass update".
• Enter {$MACRO:abc} to be removed, click "Update".

Result:
Macros were not removed.

Expected:
Macros removed, no matter the saved or entered context syntax variation.

We can't update item to SNMP agent using Mass update option. It is always shows error - "Invalid parameter "/1/snmp_oid": cannot be empty."
But "snmp_oid" option is not available. So, we have SNMP agent in type list, but can't change it.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create item with type - Zabbix agent.
2) Navigate to items list.
3) check in created item and press Mass update button.
4) Change Type parameter to SNMP agent.
5) Press Update.

Result:

Expected:
1) SNMP OID parameter exists.
or
2) SNMP agent removed from type list.

UPD: Same goes for
1) "Database monitor" item type.
We can't mass update to Database monitor, error appears like:
"Invalid parameter "/1/params": cannot be empty.". And also this parameter doesn't exists in mass update form.
2) SSH agent.
Error message - "Invalid parameter "/1/params": cannot be empty.".
3) TELNET.
Error message - "Invalid parameter "/1/params": cannot be empty.".
4) Calculated.
Error message - "Invalid parameter "/1/params": cannot be empty.".
5) IPMI agent.
Error message - "Invalid parameter "/1/ipmi_sensor": cannot be empty.".

We have all this items Types in mass update list, but technically we can't change them because of missed parameters.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create Host.
2) Create item.
3) Navigate to Item list page.
4) Check in created item and press Mass update.
5) Choose timeout , click Override and press Update.

Result:
Error message doesn't has any title.

Expected:
"Cannot update item" title exists.

How it looks like in 6.0 for script items:

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Data collection -> Hosts
2. Check the checkbox for any host
3. Click Mass update -> Value mapping/ Macros
4. Select Remove all, but leave the confirmation checkbox unchecked
5. Click Update
6. Accept the notification pop-up

Result:
The console error is appearing:

jsLoader.php?lang=en_US&ver=7.0.0alpha5&showGuiMessaging=1:18450 Uncaught TypeError: element.focus is not a function
    at removeFromOverlaysStack (jsLoader.php?lang=en_US&ver=7.0.0alpha5&showGuiMessaging=1:18450:12)
    at overlayDialogueDestroy (jsLoader.php?lang=en_US&ver=7.0.0alpha5&showGuiMessaging=1:25435:3)
    at Overlay.<anonymous> (jsLoader.php?lang=en_US&ver=7.0.0alpha5&showGuiMessaging=1:20817:5)
    at HTMLButtonElement.dispatch (jsLoader.php?lang=en_US&ver=7.0.0alpha5&showGuiMessaging=1:5432:27)
    at elemData.handle (jsLoader.php?lang=en_US&ver=7.0.0alpha5&showGuiMessaging=1:5236:28)

See video:

Expected:
No console errors should appear

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select item and open mass update form
2. Select tab "Preprocessing" and add preprocessing step
3. Check "Validation" preprocessing steps in select list

Result:
select options not fully visible, you can't at once understand which one you need

Expected:
select options visible

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open mass update form (for example Item mass update form)
2. Select "Preprocessing" tab
3. Select "Preprocessing steps"
4. Click on the letter A in word Add

Result:
"Preprocessing steps" not selected due to wrong checkbox selection area

Expected:
Preprocessing step added, checkbox selection area should be on checkbox (or checkbox label)

Precondition: Only Zabbix 5.0 version

Steps to reproduce:

• Create 3 templates e.g. test1, test2, test3
• Select e.g. test3 template and open mass update options
• Try to link template test1, test2 and test3 to template test3

Result: Blank page and no validation error.
Error in logs:

Error: Xdebug has detected a possible infinite loop, and aborted your script with a stack depth of '256' frames in /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostBase.php:211
Stack trace:
#0 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostBase.php(218): CHostBase::checkTemplateCircularLinkage()
#1 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostBase.php(218): 
...
241 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostBase.php(218): CHostBase::checkTemplateCircularLinkage()
#242 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostBase.php(262): CHostBase::checkTemplateCircularLinkage()
#243 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostBase.php(140): CHostBase::checkCircularLinkage()
#244 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostGeneral.php(178): CHostBase->link()
#245 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CHostGeneral.php(98): CHostGeneral->link()
#246 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CTemplate.php(873): CHostGeneral->massAdd()
#247 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CTemplate.php(1011): CTemplate->massAdd()
#248 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/services/CTemplate.php(587): CTemplate->massUpdate()
#249 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/clients/CLocalApiClient.php(113): CTemplate->update()
#250 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/wrappers/CFrontendApiWrapper.php(97): CLocalApiClient->callMethod()
#251 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/wrappers/CApiWrapper.php(94): CFrontendApiWrapper->callClientMethod()
#252 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/wrappers/CFrontendApiWrapper.php(63): CApiWrapper->callMethod()
#253 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/include/classes/api/wrappers/CApiWrapper.php(82): CFrontendApiWrapper->callMethod()
#254 /home/zabbix/workspace/5.0/ui/templates.php(460): CApiWrapper->__call()
#255 {main}

See video attachment:

Expected: Validation error "Circular template linkage is not allowed." should appear.

Precondition: only Zabbix 6.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a template e.g. test1
• Select template test1 and press the 'Mass update' button
• Link template test1 and press update

Result: Error message details are collapsed by default.

Expected: Error message details should be expanded by default.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Monitoring -> Problems
2. Select problems and open mass update form
3. Click on field labels except "Message" and "Close problem"

Result:
checkbox is not selected

Expected:
checkbox selected

Problem description: If a Mass update is executed for items, item prototypes, triggers or trigger prototypes, then the checkboxes in the list of these entities remain checked after the mass update operation is performed.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the list of items for any host that has multiple items
2. Check several items
3. Press "Mass update" button
4. In the opened dialog select "Desciption" checkbox and enter any value in the input element.
5. Submit the Mass update dialog

Result: the previously selected checkboxes are still set to true
Expected: after Mass update execution the previously selected checkboxes should be unset.

Hi Zabbix devs!

In Zabbix 6.0 we can use Mass update | Value mapping  and then Add from to add value mappings to a template from other templates:

In Zabbix 6.2 this functionality is broken because of the added Template groups and the removal of Host groups for templates:

The new Template groups simply do not show up at all in Mass update.

If you ask me this is a Major issue, as with the removal of global value mappings, updating template their value mappings with values from other templates in Zabbix 6.2 is now completely umanagable. 

The following errors are observer in the lists of hosts, items, triggers, item prototypes and trigger prototypes when attempting to execute Mass update action:

1. [DOM] Found 2 elements with non-unique id #ids_99131: (More info: https://goo.gl/9p2vKq) <input type=​"checkbox" id=​"ids_99131" name=​"ids[99131]​" value=​"99131" class=​"checkbox-radio">​
2. [DOM] Found 2 elements with non-unique id #context: (More info: https://goo.gl/9p2vKq) <input type=​"hidden" id=​"context" name=​"context" value=​"host">​

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the list of hosts, items, triggers, trigger prototypes or item prototypes
2. Set the select all checkbox to true
3. Press "Mass update" button
4. Check browser console

Result: browser console contains the above mentioned "non-unique ids" errors
Expected: all IDs on page should be unique, there should be no such browser errors visible.

Steps to reproduce:

Problem description: When attempting to unlink and clear a template using the Template mass update action, the template that is chosen in the "Linked templates" replaces all existing templates for templates that were selected for the mass update action (Works same as replace operation).
 
Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the list of templates
2. Link some template to one of the templates
3. Select a couple of templates, including the one with the linked template, and press Mass update button
4. In the opened dialogue go to "Linked templates tab" and select the linked template from step 2 in the multiselect
5. Set "Unlink and clear" checkbox and choose "Unlink" in the redio-button
6. Press update
7. Check configuration of the previously selected templates

Result: the template that was supposed to be unlinked is now preset under all templates selected for the Mass update action (it replaced all linked templates)
Expected: The template should've been unlinked and its items should've been removed.

There is a gap between the window header and the row of tabs in the popup window.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Find a Host with a lot of items (like default Zabbix server)
2. Go to Items of the Host
3. Select all the Items
4. Press Mass update button (scrollbar should appear in the popup)
5. Scroll down the list

Result:

The gap is present between the window header and the row of tabs: The_gap_mass.gif.

Expected:
No gap between.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to any page with mass update, for example - Configuration->Hosts.
2. Select one or more entries.
3. Go to next page in paginator.
4. Observe: it is written, that "one or more" entries are selected and action buttons under the list are enabled.
5. Press "Mass update"

Result: Popup with error message "Field "ids" is mandatory.".
Expected: Popup with mass update form that, when submitted, will update selected entries from all pages.

1. Create a host or template with two triggers;
2. open one trigger using massupdate;
3. go to "Dependencies" tab;
4. Choose the other trigger and add it to list;
5. Now click the dependent trigger link;

Result: User is navigated to trigger list without context parameter thus getting the error:
"Field "context" is mandatory."

Create a LLD rule, item prototypes on it and try to add tags using mass update (intention was to create an Application prototype).

Error message: Cannot update item protoypes.

Enabling debug is not giving any extra information.

Attached the screen recording.

When you try to do mass update for value mappings for host and update name to existing one, name is still the same, but mappings of the existing value mapping get changed even though they shouldn't have been updated.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create two value mappings for host with different mappings
2. From host list, check the checkbox of your host and press Mass update button
3. Go to Value mapping tab and choose update option
4. Press Add from link and choose any existing value mapping
5. Change its name so that it would coincide with the name of the other value mapping
6. Save

Expected result: Value mapping name and mappings of existing value mapping should not change
Actual result: Existing value mapping mappings are changed

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to Configuration -> Hosts.
2. Click on "Discovery" link for one of the hosts presented in the list.
3. Click on "Create discover rule" and create the LLD rule with any settings.
4. After create, in appeared list of LLD rules, click on "Item prototypes" link for the created LLD rule.
5. Click on "Create item prototype" and create item prototype without applications.
6. After create, in appeared list of item prototypes set check mark for your created Item prototype and press "Mass update" button.
7. Set check for the point "Application prototypes".
8. In appeared interface press on "Select" button.

Result:
See screenshot:

See console of your web browser: 500 HTTP error occurs.
See error message in web server's log file: "Undefined variable $records..".
Expected:
Popup with empty application prototypes list is displayed.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select two triggers (or items if it is Zabbix 5.4)
2. Click Mass update
3. Click Tags tab
4. Add two equal tags with equal values and press Update

Result: Triggers are updated, but only one tag added.
Expected: Error message "Invalid parameter "/1/tags/2": value (tag, value)=(tag, value) already exists." as it appears on simple creation of item or trigger with equal tags

This is actual for Zabbix versions 5.0 and higher.

Steps to reproduce:

1. select some items or triggers
2. click Mass update
3. select Tags tab
4. add or update tag:

    "          tag             " : "           value          "

5. Press Update

Result: go to updated item form and check that tag added with all spaces
Expected result: trailing spaces should be trimmed as it is done on simple item create or update

1. Open browser console
2. Open Zabbix UI and choose two hosts, or items, or templates etc.
3. Press Mass Update button
4. See errors in browser console:
   

[DOM] Found 2 elements with non-unique id #form_refresh: (More info: https://goo.gl/9p2vKq) 
<input type="hidden" id="form_refresh" name="form_refresh" value="1">
<input type="hidden" id="form_refresh" name="form_refresh" value="1">

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select to HTTP items
2. Press Mass update
3. Select Headers
4. Fill Name field with some text, but value field leave empty
5. 
6. Press Update

Result: Message is successful, but Item's headers were not updated to Header from Mass Update. If Item had some headers before, they were deleted.

Expected: Error message on Mass Update

'Invalid parameter "headers": nonempty key and value pair expected.'

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create DIscovery rule with host prototype
2. Wait until host is discovered
3. Mass update discovered host
4. Select Add Host groups and select some group and update (or any other checkbox)
   Result: text message in details: Cannot update "inventory_mode" for a discovered host.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to Configuration -> Items list
2. In hosts filter select more than one or none hosts. Apply filter.
3. Select few items and try to massupdate them.

Result:
JavaScript error:

Cannot read property 'value' of null     at openMassupdatePopup (jsLoader.php?ver=5.4.0alpha1&lang=en_GB&showGuiMessaging=1:18816)     at HTMLButtonElement.onclick

Expected:
Massupdate pop-up.

Problem description: checkboxes in the lists of hosts, templates and items are not cleared after mass update gets executed. Such behavior degrades the usability in case if the user modified entries on multiple pages of the corresponding views, as he'll be forced to go through all pages with selected entries to deselect them.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to Configuration => Templates, Configuration => Hosts or Configuration => Hosts/Templates => Items
2. Select a couple of entries from the host/template/item lists
3. Press mass update button
4. Update any of the fields in the massupdate view
5. Press update button

Result: the checkboxes next to the entries that were selected for the mass update are still checked.
Expected: because the mass update action already took place the checkboxes should be unset.

Example:

Problem description: the following error is observed when opening template item prototypes mass update form:

Undefined index: interfaces [disc_prototypes.php:1485 → CView->getOutput() → include() in include/views/configuration.item.prototype.massupdate.php:543]
Invalid argument supplied for foreach() [disc_prototypes.php:1485 → CView->getOutput() → include() in include/views/configuration.item.prototype.massupdate.php:543]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open any template that has a discovery rule with item prototypes
2. Open the list of item prototypes
3. Select a couple of item prototypes and press "Mass update" button

Result:
The following error is observed:

Expected:
No errors should be observed

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create several problems
2. go to Monitoring->Problems
3. click on 1 (or more, this i not important) checkbox in problem list. 
4. Wait ~30 sec. 
5. Press "Mass Update" button

Result:
JSON strings appears. 

Expected:
pop-up window with mass update appears. 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to Configuration -> Hosts/Templates.
2. Select at least one host/template from the list and click Mass update.
3. Choose a host group to replace/remove.
4. Choose an option that will surely fail mass update, for example, specify a tag value without tag name.
5. Press Update.

The same problem affects mass update of host, template and trigger tags.

Result:
Radio button list is reset to the first option if mass update fails.

Expected:
Radio button state is preserved if mass update fails.