Using Zabbix as a Reminder System ... ???

[johnusa]

It would be wonderful if we could use Zabbix as a simple reminder system, a sort of common calendar. I could imagine creating it with Name-text and Severity and a start date and a repeat again after # of days (after acknowledge).

Then a Zabbix Dashboard message could "on a specified day" display so many IT-infrastructure reminders like: Air-Conditioning maintenance due, Renew server certificate, check Terminal Service CALs, Evaluation license expires soon, and so many more.

Has anyone attempted this ?

[levkov]

I think it may be easy to write Python script that will check using Google Calendar API for upcoming events in Google Calendar and set it as external check items with triggers and severity, that will alert you when some string is found in script output. For example when string "certificate" is found you will get alert about upcoming certificates expiration.