Maps – a quick setup for a large topology
Creating complex maps is the kind of job that can take a lot of time. While doing a practical example, if you would like to design a map of 20-30 elements, it is easy to spend up to 2 hours even if you already know the job.
To manually produce a map, you need to:
Add all the items on the map
Move the items around until you see a nice-looking disposition
Every time you need to add in a map one host, you need to repeat many times the same steps as aforementioned, which will become a boring and complex task. Currently, there are many open-feature requests that can facilitate this kind of task; unfortunately, they have been open for a long time, even years.
The issues you can face are:
You can't move multiple elements at the same time, something that can be found at https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-161
You can't add hosts in a bulk way, something that can be found at https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-163
You can't clone any existing map element...
