How to add context to alert emails?

[yatesco]

Hi,

I have everything setup so I receive email alerts, but unfortunately they don't really give me any context.

For example, I receive an email saying the number of processes is too high, but it would be nice if (similar to nagios) it told me how many processes were running.

Equally, I have an item log[/var/log/auth.log,fail*] and an associated trigger "{Template_Linux:log[/var/log/auth.log,fail*].diff(0)}>0" and I do indeed get an email whenever somebody fails to log in. Unfortunately I have no idea which of the many boxes the alert came from

Is there any way of adding more context to emails?

Thanks,

Col

[yatesco]

Anybody?

I hate bumping threads for the sake of it, but I really really want to use Zabbix as a central monitoring system and this is a real achilles heal.

For example, I received 28 emails with the subject and body: "fail2ban activate on Template_Linux: PROBLEM"

I really don't want to have to define an item/trigger for every single host

I must be doing something really wrong and missing the point, or almost everybody has run into this problem - what do you all do?

Many thanks

Col

[MrKen]

You can add context to emails by using Macros in the Alert Message setup.

For example, to get the number of running processes with the alert, you can use {ITEM.LASTVALUE}.

There are many macros for different situations: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/config/macros

HTH
MrKen

[yatesco]

Excellent - thanks, I will take a butchers.