Scheduling

[Emma]

Hello,

I have tried searching around for an answer to my question to no end. I am trying to alter the times on when a particular check runs. For example I am only on call for certain servers Monday to Friday and only want the system to check on these days and alert.

I can re-design my alert scripts but was hoping Zabbix has a way to schedule these things.

Cheers

[James Wells]

Greetings,

At present, Zabbix doesn't provide a mechanism for scheduling checks the way you want it to, it does however, have a mechanism for scheduling alert notifications. Under the media types per user, you will see something like;
1-7,00:00-23:59

What this is saying is to alert on any day between 1 and 7 and any time between midnight and 11:59PM, in your case, I believe you would want to change this to;
2-6,00:00-23:59

There has been talk on these forums recently about regarding adding an actual scheduling mechanism for checks, but I am not sure where that stands at present or if it will be a feature in the 1.1 release.

[Emma]

Thanks James that will work for me, cheers

[Nate Bell]

I think the time format goes like this:
1 = Monday -> 7 = Sunday, so if he only wants alerts Monday-Friday, that should look like:
1-5,00:00-23:59

If not, then I have some settings I need to change. :)

Just a side note, you can string multiple times together with a ;
Lets say you want to be alerted only at night, but not during working hours (lets say from 8am - 5pm). You could do it like so:
1-5,00:00-07:59;1-5,17:00,23:59,1-7,00:00-23:59

Boom, skips over the working hours, alerts you at night, and on the weekends. Sort of the inverse of what you were looking for, but you get the idea.

Nate

[rajeevtomar]

I am wondering if this is possible in zabbix 1.0 .

James and Nate, please let me know, if I can also work on this line for 1.0 version.

Regards, Rajeev

[Nate Bell]

Sorry. It's a 1.1 only feature. However, if you want to set a trigger to only trigger at a certain time of day, there is a way. Ripped straight from the manual:


Function | Definition
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time() | Returns current time in HHMMSS format. Example: 123055

Example: CPU activity at night time
Use of function time():

({zabbix:system[procload].nodata(180)}=1)&({zabbix:system[procload].time(0)}>000000)& ({zabbix:system[procload].time(0)}<060000)

The trigger may change its status to true, only at night (00:00-06:00) time.

Unfortunately, there isn't a way that I know of to set which days this this happens on.

Nate