Use item value as condition in Trigger action

[Knuppel]

I have a trigger on my 2 UPS devices that monitors if power is lost for 30 seconds.
I have an item called 'VM's active' on my 2 Hyper-V hosts that reflects if it is running VM's. (only 1 at a time is)

Action: if power is lost for 30s on both UPS devices, send Pushover message and execute 'shutdown non-critical servers'.

Now what i want is to conditionally execute a shutdown script based on the 'VM's active' item value. If VS1 is not running VM's shut it down, if VS2 is not running VM's shut it down.
But it can't use an item value in a Trigger action condition. How can i achieve what i want?

[Brambo]

I think you first need to build a trigger on VS1 & 2 (or in the template running on both )which is triggered when there are no running VM's and then you could use that trigger in your action.

[Knuppel]

I think you first need to build a trigger on VS1 & 2 (or in the template running on both )which is triggered when there are no running VM's and then you could use that trigger in your action.

But then that trigger would always be in problem state? Having no VM's running isn't a failure, i just tells me the host can safely be shutdown.

[Brambo]

The "error state" could be of level informational

[Knuppel]

The "error state" could be of level informational

You're right. I was overcomplicating this!
Thanks!

[Knuppel]

The "error state" could be of level informational

Does not work unfortunately.
In current problems i see my initial trigger is fired and it reports 'OPM-VS1 is running VM's' (informational). So far so good.
In actions i then reference 3 triggers (this one + 2 ups batteries discharging. But nothing happens.

[TheOddPerson]

When the on battery trigger goes then have it run a script with a loop

Shutdown VMs
Do {
    Check if VMs are running on hosts and shutdown
    Wait 5 minutes
} Until ( 3 hrs have passed / battery is dead / all servers are off )

You can also go outside of Zabbix to implement this and merely have Zabbix initiate the loop.
Personally I would use powershell which can integrate with the esx api but use whatever you're comfortable with.