Need help setting up actions

[kisters]

Hello,

I installed Zabbix 1.1beta 5 yesterday after using Zabbix 1.0 for a long time now. I configured it to check two Windows-Hosts and some network-connections via simple checks (icmpping and icmppingsec). This is working fine.

I also added Triggers "Ping to server {HOSTNAME} is down" with {HOST:icmpping.avg(60)}=0 and set Severity to Average and Status to Enabled (using a Template for the 10 network connections I want to check, so all are the same).

Zabbix is generating Events when a network connection is down, so the Trigger is working. But I want to be informed via mail whenever a connection is down. So I added a new Action, added a condition Trigger = Host: Ping to server {HOSTNAME} is down and a second condition Trigger value = "ON".

I set my mail-address and the mailserver in Zabbix and tested the mailtransfer via telnet allready successfully. In Monitoring => Actions there are No alerts.

Can anybody tell me where I made a mistake?

Another thing:
I'm using Zabbix on an FC4 system (PIV without HT) with all updates installed. Configure and make install worked fine. The zabbix_server process worked for 10 hours fine but crashed this morning.

001994:20060111:073910 Timeout while connecting to [ws-2]
001994:20060111:073910 Host [ws-2] will be checked after [60] seconds
001994:20060111:074013 No route to host [ws-1]
001994:20060111:074013 Host [ws-1] will be checked after [60] seconds
001994:20060111:074018 Timeout while connecting to [ws-2]
001994:20060111:074018 Host [ws-2] will be checked after [60] seconds
001994:20060111:074121 No route to host [ws-1]
001994:20060111:074121 Host [ws-1] will be checked after [60] seconds
001994:20060111:074126 Timeout while connecting to [ws-2]
001994:20060111:074126 Host [ws-2] will be checked after [60] seconds
001999:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001999:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001988:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001989:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001990:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001993:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001994:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001967:20060111:074230 One child process died. Exiting ...
001967:20060111:074230 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]
001995:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001995:20060111:074230 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]
001996:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001996:20060111:074230 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]
001997:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001997:20060111:074230 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]
001998:20060111:074230 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
001998:20060111:074230 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]
002731:20060111:083022 Starting zabbix_server. ZABBIX 1.1beta5.

Before there were some timeouts checking the two windows hosts because they were shut down. I don't know if that was the cause of the problem.

I created a script for restarting zabbix_server whenever it dies and added it to crontab:
#!/bin/bash
A=`ps -aux |grep "/usr/local/bin/zabbix_server" -o -c`
if [ $A -lt 2 ]; then
rm /var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid
/etc/init.d/zabbixd start
fi

I will keep an eye on the server to see if it dies multiple times a day or if it was a one time crash.

Thank you

[Alexei]

You did everything correct. I would check configuration of Users and Medias to see if you have an media defined for the user.

[kisters]

Thanks for the quick reply. And I did everything correct .

I created three users (user1 - user3) and added a New Media for them, Type Email, Send to valid email-address, When active 1-7,00:00-23:59 , checked all severities and set status enabled.

For one user I set Status disabled because I want to send him mails only when the system is running fine after my testing is finished. Then I added all three users to the user groups Network administrators, Security specialists, UNIX administrators and the two enabled users to Zabbix administrators.

The Trigger was set to Group Network administrators with Delay 60 and no repeats.

Maybe I may not disable a user?

[prupert]

I have the exact same problem. I've setup everything correct (I presume... according to the documentation and this thread) but I still do not receive notifications.

I also checked my maillogs on the Zabbix server for records, unfortunately: nothing in there either...