Only trigger alert after consecutive failures (using str)

[yossarianuk]

Hi.

I would like an alert to trigger only after a report of a failure occurs multiple consecutive times

I have a script which sends, via zabbix-sender to the zabbix server string values.

At present I have this trigger (as an example)

{TPL_IPA_Server:ipa.ntpd.service.str(STOPPED)}=1

Which works fine to alert you when we have 1 fail.

I want it to trigger only after X (say 3) fails in a row - how is this possible ?

I have tried these triggers and all just trigger after 1 fail.

{TPL_IPA_Server:ipa.ntpd.service.str[B]([/B]STOPPED,#3[B])[/B]}=1

{{TPL_IPA_Server:ipa.ntpd.service.regexp(STOPPED,#3)}=1

I have seen these threads however none have helped - i.e the trigger alerts after only 1 fail..

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-help/20895-trigger-event-if-web-check-fails-two-times

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-help/16750-event-generation-only-after-n-consecutive-failures

Can anyone help me ?

Cheers

[yossarianuk]

I ended up asking in the #Zabbix irc room and got an answer

Which was

{TPL_IPA_Server:ipa.ntpd.service.count(#3,STOPPED)}=3

Thanks