Well, I can add some light: Templates have to be at or above the level you're going to bind them to (IME anyway). The names don't seem to matter if you're talking about user bound (as opposed to Zenoss auto-selected) templates. You can just ctrl-click on multiple templates in the Bind Templates dialog, or type in several in the zProperties.
If all the stars (and configuration) align once you've bound the templates to your class, and you drop in the server, everything works. In your case, it seems that happy state of affairs has yet to occur. It's probably some issue with getting data from the servers, but you're not really explaining what you mean by not all graphs display correctly. Do you mean: 1) No graph - empty space 2) Graph is blank 3) Gaps in graphs 4) Data is obviously incorrect 5) Something else All I can suggest (as I don't use IIS or the MSSQLServer templates) is to check your logs, and especially try setting logseverity to 10 so you can see debug info... See if something is failing against the problem servers. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University jedward wrote, On 3/14/2009 4:10 PM: > I wonder if someone can give me a bit more information about Templates and > Binding of those Templates to different classes in the hierarchy. > > The explanation of this is quite brief in the admin guide so I wonder if > anyone can explain it with more clarity. > > The first thing in the guide that I need clarification on is the relevance to > the name of the template and the name of the the class that the template is > to bind to... Does the template name have to the be the same as the class it > is bound to? > > Secondly, I created a class called 'IIS' at /Server/Windows/IIS and bound the > IIS template to this level in the hierarchy and everything worked as > expected, any devices I dropped into this /Server/Windows/IIS inherited the > template and the IIS graphs were generated. > > However, I have one server which has SQL Server and IIS on it and naturally I > want the MSSQLServer and IIS template to be bound to the class the I created > for it 'IIS and MSSQLServer'. I managed to bind the IIS class correctly, but > the MSSQLServer template wasn't available in the list, so I had to copy the > template upto /Server/Windows from /Server/Windows/MSSQLServer... Is this the > correct way to go about it? Why was the MSSQLServer only available at > /Server/Windows/MSSQLServer? Surely it would be better to have all templates > at the top level so they are available to all classes? > > Finally, once I managed to bind both the IIS and MSSQLServer template to the > 'IIS and MSSQLServer' class, and dropped in the server, not all of the graphs > are displaying correctly. > > I know that wasn't particularly concise a description, but I hope people can > help me out with the whole template binding thing! > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=32299#32299 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
