Executing Script when zabbix-server,service is down

[Vussey]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if it's possible to somehow start a shell/python script on a server when its zabbix-server.service is currently down or disabled.
If itry to launch a script i receive following message, which is obviously because of the down zabbix-server.service




The case would be for a passive zabbix server to manually start a script which restarts or starts the zabbix-server script.
The passive Server is periodically getting its DB replaced by another zabbix server with a basic script containing a SQLdump.
These 2 Servers are independed from each other, not configured as HA and seperated by quite a distance.

I tried tinkering with some custom php file which should enable the service once it is launched by a button containing the custom file,
if you have any better advice, feel free to reach out !

Thanks and best regards

[cyber]

https://freshman.tech/snippets/linux/auto-restart-systemd-service/

[Vermizz]

You can also write a script that checks if the service is running and put it in cron.

Script example:

#!/bin/bash
# Check zabbix-server is running
if systemctl is-active --quiet zabbix-server.service; then
    echo "zabbix-server service is running."
else
    # service is not running, start it
    sudo systemctl start zabbix-server.service
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "The zabbix-server started successfully."
    else
        echo "The zabbix-server not started, check log"
    fi
fi
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