Windows alerts certain services

[kline]

I am trying to monitor several Windows servers, I would like to do a Trigger severity Disaster (As I am only alerting on this severity until we are comfortable with alerting notifications) on certain custom services, I am not sure if I need to do this with a custom template and add it to my servers along with the default windows template or if there is a better way of doing it. would someone mind advising me on this just not sure if filter is the right way to go or not

I am using the "Zabbix Agent not available" to trigger notifications that the server might be down. Users who receive the notification don't know anything about Zabbix can the alert text be changed or is there a better method to alert users that the server is no longer online?

Thanks for your help

[Vermizz]

Hi,
Personally, I have a separate template for the zabbix agent (Template App Zabbix Agent) connected to my basic host group (Windows and Linux).

If you want to change the message sent to users, you need to change the trigger name (by default, zabbix takes the name from the trigger name) or configure a separate trigger action with the message you want.

You need change:
1. Trigger name:


2. Configure trriger action with custom message. In this case you need to configure a tag for the trigger. Then set the condition that the custom notification is sent only for this tag name.

[cyber]

OOB windows template has enough options (look for macros) to restrict it to monitor only required services.
Zabbix agent unavailability trigger can always be changed, if you need to ..

[kline]

Thank you both for your input I have made the changes as recommended and I have now got a much better meaningful message.

I saw that "Windows service names for discovery" in regular expressions also has a method for ignoring unwanted monitored services? Could that be used ? I was trying that at first by changing the regex and then removing the host but it keeps alerting on it.