EMAIL Alert PII

[cjwallace]

Guys.

I am sure i have already posted this but now dont seem to be here.

Anyway can someone please help me.

When my server is unavailable i am getting the same message to say it is down as when it comes back up again.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[tchjts1]

You have it posted here - http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10435

[cjwallace]

Doh. I just could not see it, thought it had been removed

Anyway if anyone can help me fix the email message that would be great as it seems stupid if i get the same message that the server is unreachable when it is up or down

Thanks in advance

[cjwallace]

Guys can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

[vinny]

What's ur problem clearly ?
If u want to modify the email sent with each alert, just look at the manual and the macro available for email
e.g {ITEM.LASTVALUE}


vinny

[cjwallace]

Hello mate.

The issue i am having is thus:

Lets say server A becomes unreachable and an alert get sent to me via email.

It will say something like "Server A Unreachable 14:39"

Now that's fine i don't mind that.

But when the server comes back up and is functioning i will get another email that says "Server A Unreachable 14:41"

I am getting the same email for when the server goes down as to when it comes back up.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Craig

[cstackpole]

Try using {STATUS}.

Also, in 1.6 this is much easier to customize but for now {STATUS} will tell you ON|OFF at least.

[cjwallace]

Hi mate.

Thanks for the reply. I am glad it is being addressed in 1.6. I am really starting to love Zabbix but it is things like the email alerts that makes me want to walk away and back to Nagios.

I am going to try and stick to Zabbix as this product has some massive potential and the Maps feature just blows me away.

I will take a look at status but i am sure i have seen that and ON or OFF just pisses me off.

Thanks again

[cstackpole]

I have been testing the 1.5 beta and one of the things I have been testing out is the feature of sending one email when the trigger turns on and sending another email when it turns off.

If you can, test the beta out on a spare system and see if it will do what you want it to do. Of course, I believe the Zabbix team is still on target for their 1.6 release in 6 days so I guess you could just wait till then and test against 1.6...either way.

Have fun!

[cjwallace]

Oh really 1.6 is only 6 days away.

Well i have not gone to deep into my Zabbix install so i would be happy to wait until 1.6 is released.

I pulled one of my mirrored disks out of my RAID1+0 so all i would have to do is pop the old one out and the new one in and my server is back to not having Zabbix on again i could look to install 1.6

The email. If i am going to get my company to take Zabbix seriously the email part has to work just as good as what we have if not better. My sys admins and myself are not going to want to put up with ON or Off messages thats for sure.

I will wait for 1.6 and give it a spin

Thanks for letting me know

Craig