Recover message with calculated downtime

[orionweb]

After weeks of getting frustrated I am getting some where with Zabbix I will try to write a noob quick start tut some day

One of the other monitoring system we were using (PRTG) when it sends a recovery message it also include stats of how long the host / service was down for.

Example email subject: BRU : PINGBRUExt(PING) Up : Downtime: 234 s (OK)

How can I achieve the same thing in Zabbix Action message? At the moment I have the below for the recovery message.

{HOSTNAME} {TRIGGER.NAME} : {STATUS}

Which give: HOSTNAME Down (using ICMP Host Alive Check): OK

What I want: HOSTNAME Down (using ICMP Host Alive Check): OK : Downtime 2 mins

What else do I need to add to get the downtime info. I can see the info int he web GUI so it is already calculated just needs to be retrieved

Thank you for any pointer.

[elvar]

After weeks of getting frustrated I am getting some where with Zabbix I will try to write a noob quick start tut some day

One of the other monitoring system we were using (PRTG) when it sends a recovery message it also include stats of how long the host / service was down for.

Example email subject: BRU : PINGBRUExt(PING) Up : Downtime: 234 s (OK)

How can I achieve the same thing in Zabbix Action message? At the moment I have the below for the recovery message.

{HOSTNAME} {TRIGGER.NAME} : {STATUS}

Which give: HOSTNAME Down (using ICMP Host Alive Check): OK

What I want: HOSTNAME Down (using ICMP Host Alive Check): OK : Downtime 2 mins

What else do I need to add to get the downtime info. I can see the info int he web GUI so it is already calculated just needs to be retrieved

Thank you for any pointer.

I am interested in this as well. Please post back if you figure it out.

[alixen]

Hi,

May be {EVENT.AGE} macro is what you are looking for; I haven't tried it yet.
It is described in the manual : http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../config/macros

Regards,
Alixen

[orionweb]

Thank you will give that a try.

[zabbix_zen]

Sorry to inform you the {EVENT.AGE} macro is intended for displaying age of the last event, so it will always return 0 for recovery messages.


I've opened a new Request for it, please vote

https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBXNEXT-252

[orionweb]

I tried it myself and it didn't work. Looking at the macros page I couldn't see anything else close.

Have placed my vote, the first to vote

[guertin]

I would really like to see this too. I have also voted.