Sent a single email if one or more triggers = [severity]

[mike@vtg]

Hello,
I've searched quite a bit and have not found a suggestion, so hoping someone can help with what seems to be a simple issue. There is a thread on deduping that seems to start down this path but not quite answers my problem.

Zabbix 1.8.5 - I am attempting to send ONLY ONE email if one or more triggers are at high severity for a host group. As it stands now I am getting multiple alerts if multiple triggers are active, but I want to send an email to a pager only once, event if multiple hosts experience a problem.

So I am thinking the logic is something like:
If at least 1 host in a group changes to trigger severity=high send an email, but ignore all other hosts in that group that also change to severity=high.

Can anyone please help me with this scenario?

Best regards,
Mike

[mike@vtg]

Alternate approach

Another way of presenting the problem I have is that the problem could be solved if I had an action that said something like:

If ANY host in group X goes to trigger severity=high, send email and have the action sleep for two hours, preventing it from retriggering the email action.

[dbay]

Same question

Hi, I have pretty much the same question.

Basically, how do I prevent emails from sending as long as another trigger is already active?

An example of how my server is running: I have 3 hosts (X, Y, Z) each with a trigger that that fires if they go down (aka aren't reachable). Assume at first they are up. Suddenly, host X goes down, so an email is sent. Then a couple minutes later, host Y goes down. How do I make it so that another email isn't sent as long as one of these three hosts is already down?

If it helps, all these triggers have a severity of "Disaster", and no other triggers are like this.