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  • jluvs2ride
    Member
    • Jul 2015
    • 85

    #1

    Formatting information in email alerts.

    For me, E-Mail alerts are at the heart of what makes Zabbix so incredibly useful.

    I pretty much use the default formatting in the Action, but the emails I receive seem to differ somewhat from the set format.

    Here is the actual formatting;

    {TRIGGER.STATUS}: {TRIGGER.NAME}

    Trigger: {TRIGGER.NAME}
    Trigger status: {TRIGGER.STATUS}
    Trigger severity: {TRIGGER.SEVERITY}
    Trigger URL: {TRIGGER.URL}

    Item values:

    1. {ITEM.NAME1} ({HOST.NAME1}:{ITEM.KEY1}): {ITEM.VALUE1}
    2. {ITEM.NAME2} ({HOST.NAME2}:{ITEM.KEY2}): {ITEM.VALUE2}
    3. {ITEM.NAME3} ({HOST.NAME3}:{ITEM.KEY3}): {ITEM.VALUE3}

    Original event ID: {EVENT.ID}

    However the emails I receive look like this;

    XXXX: PROBLEM: Free disk space is less than 20% on volume C:

    Item values:

    1. Free disk space on C: (percentage) (WCDA-DC1:vfs.fs.size[C:,pfree]): 19.99 %
    2. *UNKNOWN* (*UNKNOWN*:*UNKNOWN*): *UNKNOWN*
    3. *UNKNOWN* (*UNKNOWN*:*UNKNOWN*): *UNKNOWN*

    Original event

    So, I am unclear as to why some of the information is missing. The following info doesn't appear in the message body;

    Trigger: {TRIGGER.NAME}
    Trigger status: {TRIGGER.STATUS}
    Trigger severity: {TRIGGER.SEVERITY}
    Trigger URL: {TRIGGER.URL}

    And;

    Original event ID: {EVENT.ID} is truncated to;

    Original event
  • vso
    Zabbix developer
    • Aug 2016
    • 190

    #2
    Originally posted by jluvs2ride
    For me, E-Mail alerts are at the heart of what makes Zabbix so incredibly useful.

    I pretty much use the default formatting in the Action, but the emails I receive seem to differ somewhat from the set format.

    Here is the actual formatting;

    {TRIGGER.STATUS}: {TRIGGER.NAME}

    Trigger: {TRIGGER.NAME}
    Trigger status: {TRIGGER.STATUS}
    Trigger severity: {TRIGGER.SEVERITY}
    Trigger URL: {TRIGGER.URL}

    Item values:

    1. {ITEM.NAME1} ({HOST.NAME1}:{ITEM.KEY1}): {ITEM.VALUE1}
    2. {ITEM.NAME2} ({HOST.NAME2}:{ITEM.KEY2}): {ITEM.VALUE2}
    3. {ITEM.NAME3} ({HOST.NAME3}:{ITEM.KEY3}): {ITEM.VALUE3}

    Original event ID: {EVENT.ID}

    However the emails I receive look like this;

    XXXX: PROBLEM: Free disk space is less than 20% on volume C:

    Item values:

    1. Free disk space on C: (percentage) (WCDA-DC1:vfs.fs.size[C:,pfree]): 19.99 %
    2. *UNKNOWN* (*UNKNOWN*:*UNKNOWN*): *UNKNOWN*
    3. *UNKNOWN* (*UNKNOWN*:*UNKNOWN*): *UNKNOWN*

    Original event

    So, I am unclear as to why some of the information is missing. The following info doesn't appear in the message body;

    Trigger: {TRIGGER.NAME}
    Trigger status: {TRIGGER.STATUS}
    Trigger severity: {TRIGGER.SEVERITY}
    Trigger URL: {TRIGGER.URL}

    And;

    Original event ID: {EVENT.ID} is truncated to;

    Original event
    This is a known issue in release candidate and fix will be available in new release soon.

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    • jluvs2ride
      Member
      • Jul 2015
      • 85

      #3
      Originally posted by vso
      This is a known issue in release candidate and fix will be available in new release soon.
      Great. Thanks for your response.

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