Status of this post: COD 3.3. Later versions may differ. For the current feature status see the roadmap.
With COD 3.2, we put the reachability of your firewalls and devices under the microscope using fping. Nice, but honestly only half the story.
If you run operations, you don't just want to know "up or down," but what a host is really up to. That's exactly where COD 3.3 comes in: we're building monitoring out into a full-featured module, based on Zabbix, right inside COD.
The Big New Module: Zabbix-Based Monitoring
Until now, Monitoring was just a read-only statistics page backed by an internal histogram table. That's history. Now you get a Zabbix integration with its own views:
- A dashboard with configurable widgets, drilldown dialogs, and a severity palette.
- Hosts, Templates, Problems, and Recent Problems, each with detail pages for individual hosts and templates.
- Unlinked Assets: COD shows you which assets aren't hooked into monitoring yet.
All views read through the Zabbix bridge in the backend. The frontend never talks to Zabbix directly, and a shared cache layer keeps the lists snappy.
Host Management Straight from the Asset Dialog
This is the part that saves time day to day: you provision and edit Zabbix hosts right from the asset dialog in COD, without switching tools. COD never deletes a Zabbix host, unlinking removes only the link in COD.
Host-Group Filtering
Each ZabbixConfig gets host-group filtering per site. Restrictions apply, the details are in the service description.
What Else?
3.3 brings a long tail of fixes across Firewall, Backup, Network, Dashboard, and Platform. The details are in the changelog.
Migration
This version ships three small cod_prisma migrations, one of which adds six previously missing foreign keys against asset_object. Check the MIGRATION.md before upgrading. It walks you through everything step by step.
Want a Live Demo?
If you want to see what the new monitoring looks like in practice, get in touch. We'd be happy to show you COD 3.3 in action.
Module overview: extocode.com
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