Trigger with a string

[thefuzz4]

Hey Everyone,

So I'm trying to setup a trigger for crashplan. I have a userpreference script that runs and asks crashplan what its status is. I have a grep in that statement that just looks for running

UserParameter=crash.running,su - root -c '/usr/pbi/crashplan-amd64/share/crashplan/bin/CrashPlanEngine status' | grep 'running' | awk '{print $NF}'

Nothing too fancy. It returns a value back to zabbix of running and all is happy in the world.

Now what I want to do is if crashplan isn't running it returns back an empty string. How can I create a trigger that when it sees anything else other than running for it to fire off.

I created a trigger based off of another thread that looks like this

{crashplan_1:crash.running.str()}=1

But since its currently alarming that crashplan is not running (even though it is) I know that my trigger isn't working properly. Thanks.

[jamesNJ]

I think what you want to use is something like this:

{crashplan_1:crash.running.str("running")}=0

Which will trigger if the value is not "running". Else you might try:

{crashplan_1:crash.running.nodata()}=1

[thefuzz4]

Thank you that did the trick. Greatly appreciated.

[jamesNJ]

I'm glad it worked! I learned something as well looking into this