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[krusty]

Hi im looking to a trigger that shows the average. I the average is higher then 120 ms i want to send an email.

I use the following trigger but it dosen´t work. Have anyone idea?

{HOST:icmpping.avg(0)}>120

icmpping is just a simple check

[Nate Bell]

icmpping just returns a binary value, either 0 (no ping) or 1 (ping), so the average of icmpping is going to be at most 1. I use a bash script to ping a site/host three times, and return the average time. Here's the script I use:

#!/bin/bash
#pingtime.sh
ping -c3 -W10 $1 &> /tmp/pingtime.dmp
grep avg /tmp/pingtime.dmp | cut -d"/" -f5

Now create a UserParameter:

UserParameter=pingtime[*],/[i]locationofzabbixscripts[/i]/pingtime.sh

You can now create an item in Zabbix like so:

pingtime[google.com]

and this item will return the average time it took to ping google.com 3 times.

That's my method at least. Hope you find some use in it.

Nate

[krusty]

Nice work

Thanks for posting. I will check this in the evening. I give you report about it.

Greez

[krusty]

Hi,

I got the following error in zabbix_server.log:

031256:20051130:085700 Simple check [check_service[pingtime[192.168.0.4],192.168.0.5]] is not supported
031256:20051130:085700 Parameter [pingtime[192.168.0.4]] is not supported by agent on host [testhost1]

I installed a new simple check with key "pingtime[192.168.0.4]". What´s my mistake?

Krusty

[James Wells]

Greetings,

Hi im looking to a trigger that shows the average. I the average is higher then 120 ms i want to send an email.

Create a simple check of item icmppingsec, then create a trigger based on this. The trigger, based on your previous exmple would be something like;

{HOST:icmppingsec.avg(30)}>0.12

This will trigger if the ping time between the Zabbix server and HOST, averages higher than 120ms over a period of 30 seconds.

A word of warning though. 120ms is not a lot of variance when it comes to network latency. Expect this trigger to activate often, unless you are running a gigabit network.

[krusty]

Thanks for your discription but i located a problem.

When I show graph of the trigger there is only 0.00. Can i check the value manually in zabbix?

[krusty]

I found my mistake. I check one host in my own LAN an the ping is only 3ms
If i check the values of the last hour i get values of 0.0024 and so on.
Sorry for my stupid post.

[sauron]

KISS:

icmppingsec Return ICMP ping response time Number of seconds Example: 0.02

http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/config_items.php

[krusty]

@sauron

you are so right. After i have fix the problem i watch the manual and i found the discription.

nobody is perfect.

[Nate Bell]

Apparenly, I like doing things the hard way.

Nate