Manage 3rd party application - start/stop/restart etc

[lori]

Is it possible to configure Zabbix to manage and monitor a number of 3rd party applications?

What I'm hoping to be able to do is something along the lines of:

At time A: Start a process
At time Z: Stop a process

If at any time between A and Z the process dies Zabbix should both report the fact it has died, and immediately attempt to restart it.

If the process refuses to come up after N attempts within a configurable time window Zabbix should stop attempting to restart it and escalate the issue.

These 3rd party applications are all in-house bespoke applications, so using the Zabbix API is fine.

Thanks in advance

[BDiE8VNy]

An action can issue remote commands like starting or stopping a service.
Such actions could be executed by triggers with time() functions.

A combination of time() functions with the last() function on an item for process count could trigger an action within a specific time range and a specific process state.

An action can have several steps to for example redo things several times and do something else after a defined time.

Take a look at:
Triggers
Supported trigger functions
Actions
Escalations

But keep in mind that ZABBIX is not an scheduling system like TWS or similar!

[lori]

Thanks BDiE8VNy - this is great!