Delayed alarming

[markusz]

Hi

I'm running Zabbix for some time now and I'm very satisfied with it. Although, I have problems with a specific server on an external network. I cannot assume that every ping goes through to that server, and I get 2-3 alerts from zabbix every day.

Isn't there a way to say "if the most recent trigger status was false, wait another 20 seconds, try it again and if it still fails, alarm me"?

I know other monitoring solutions have this concept, and I'm pretty sure Zabbix has it as well, I just couldn't find anything about this.

[zabbix_zen]

Well..
maybe you could add a new trigger with the following expression
{ITEMNAME.last(0)}=0 and {ITEMNAME.last(1)}=0
configuring the colected values refresh rate to 20sec.

(Modify ITEMNAME to your item's name)

[markusz]

Hey

Thanks for your reply. I used:

{Template_MyServers:net.tcp.service[http].last(0)}=0 & {Template_MyServers:net.tcp.service[http].last(1)}=0

but it does still trigger after the first 20 seconds :-/

[Kai-Kai]

Perhaps this topic can help you :

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=48111

According to me, the solution to do what you want is iffectively to see more than the last value. For example the last 2 ou 3 values.

If up = 1 and down = 0, you can use for example :
{Template_MyServers:net.tcp.service[ping].sum(#3)}<2 or {Template_MyServers:net.tcp.service[ping].sum(#2)}=0...

tcp.service[http]

You ask a question concerning ping. In your example you use http.
Do you check ping or another thing ?