Method of testing a trigger

[KenvM]

Is there an easy way to test the evaluation of a trigger, beyond waiting for it to respond to the data and activate?

Maybe some sort of command line tool that returns the results?

Thanks,

-Ken

[oliverm]

Yeah, i'd like to see a TEST button by some things, alerts etc.

[CeeEss]

As this is still not present in 1.5, i really hope it will make it into 1.6!

On a similar note, how can i monitor *successful* trigger evaluation? Made some changes, adding an additional OR'd condition to a couple of tiggers and now i'm not getting the false positives i was previously receiving ... but is the trigger being correctly eval'd? I don't know and i'd hate to find out the hard way.

[nelsonab]

I agree, this is becoming a requirement. Evaluating complex triggers is a "royal pain in the arse"(tm).

Perhaps a "trigger inspector" would be a good idea. A screen which will allow you to see what the values are in the trigger. That would go a ways to help debug.

[ngarnier]

You can use zabbix_sender to send the "good" value to your item and so test your trigger.

[CeeEss]

Should have said my triggers are based on SNMP-obtained values, not agentd data. The system in question is also not a UNIX host - it's a hardware device with an SNMP agent in firm/software. Can trigger evaluation be directed to zabbix-server.log in 1.6?

thanks

[nelsonab]

As I understand it the sender will work for that. I haven't been able to get it to work but I'm trying to do some crazy stuff. :-) However it looks like it has the ability to input a value into any key no matter what the source.

[CeeEss]

ok ...

How would one construct a pure-SNMP event using zabbix_sender? Feel free to jump in here, Zabbix (or write me).

-k --key <Key> Specify metric name (key) we want to send

huh?