Dependency's pain

[pinarella]

Hi guys,

zabbix dependency's are giving me a hard pain.

The setup:
(wifi-ap)Wifi AP Depends on : gateway-x
(linux-server)Linux server Depends on : gateway-x
(windows-server)Windows machine Depends on : gateway-x

gateway-x is master.

trigger dependents setup:
{wifi-ap:icmpping[{IPADDRESS},2,3000,56,2000].sum(#8)}<5
{linux-server:icmpping[{IPADDRESS},2,3000,56,2000].sum(#8)}<5
{windows-server:icmpping[{IPADDRESS},2,3000,56,2000].sum(#8)}<5

gateway-x:
{gateway-x:icmpping[{IPADDRESS},2,3000,56,2000].sum(#3)}<3

so, when gateway-x is down, Zabbix checks 3 times before sounds an alarm. and dependents are checked 5 times for availability before checking if the master is down. this scenario works and i get only one notification which corresponds to dependency role.

but, when gateway-x comes up, i got notification that gateway-x is up, and i got 3 more notification's: wifi-ap is up, linux-server is up, windows-server is up.
this is not good. what could happen if i have n hosts that depends on gateway-x - a ton of notification's that hosts are up.

how to solve this?

i read all the forum and get no help.

[pinarella]

any hint?
zabbix trainers/specialists?
point me to a real direction at least

thanks

[pinarella]

regarding official documentation https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...s/dependencies

this scenarios works, but notifications when hosts come up troubles me, i get a lot of notifications that hosts are up instead of one.

read all on forum but nothing gets my problem solved.

[pinarella]

i must revive this topic since i had no luck setting this.
i have set the hosts trigger to depend on router...and its not working again at all...
i have no clue what to do next.
zabbix 2.2.1

[pinarella]

me again, now with solution:
since integrated dependencies are not working, here is workaround:

{host-1:icmpping[{IPADDRESS},2,3000,56,2000].sum(#10)}<5 & {gw-1:icmpping[{IPADDRESS},2,3000,56,2000].sum(#10)}>8

first condition is checking if host is up for 5 pings out of 10 AND if gw is up.
cant be templated, but when you create it for one host, you can copy trigger to another host.