noob help

[radamand]

Hello, I am just learning Zabbix and will probably be asking a few questions.

I understand from a previous post that Zabbix only responds to a change in a trigger status, not to existing conditions.
I set up a simple ping check with an email notification for a couple of dozen servers, the problem is, the occassional network hiccup sets off the notification when it really shouldnt.

What I would like to do is, have it check the previous network status, and if it was down on its previous poll, and still down now, then send an email.

But, if zabbix only responds to a change in a trigger's status, this wont work because the previous status will always be up!

am I looking at this wrong?

[Alexei]

This is exactly the case when one should take advantage of trigger functions. Instead of using simple things like:

{host:icmpping.last(0)}=0

do

{host:icmpping.max(600)}=0

The second expression will trigger only when the host was unreachable for 600 seconds, or 10 minutes.

In other words, make trigger expressions less sensitive!

[radamand]

ahhh

ahhhh, I always wondered what that parameter was for, I had not seen it anywhere in the documentation.

[Alexei]

ZABBIX Manual in PDF format is your friend, the information is there!