Manually trigger actions?

[ben.bressler]

Is it possible to manually run an action?

We have several triggers that send alerts. Because of the nature of the error sometimes when we get the error the server needs to be restarted and sometimes we just need to restart the service. Our standard process is to look at the log files sent to zabbix, ssh into the server, then reboot or restart the service.

I've set up actions that do what we want but so far the only way I've seen to run the actions is based on automatic trigger status's. Can you manually run an action?

I am using Zabbix v1.8.

[ben.bressler]

Another thought that I had would be to set a specific item/trigger that was tied to the reboot action and then somehow manually flip the trigger from ok to problem which caused the action to fire. Then when the box rebooted it would automatically set the trigger back to ok.

Is this possible?

[LenR]

I've done something like this with zsender items, you just send the desired value and I think it can be spoofed from a 3rd party box, in that from box A, I can send a value for B to zabbix server/proxy Z.

To test triggers, I've just reversed the logic temporarily, probably not what you're looking for.