More statuses of triggers, alerter support for transitions

[limo]

Hi all,

I think there should be more statuses of trigger, not only ON,OFF, UNKNOWN. I am trying to make some discussion about this Problem is that there are some situations when we do not want to send alert, even if trigger becomes TRUE. Let me explain it. Primary goal of this should be to make as small number of alerts as possible. In other words, send only IMPORTANT alerts to users.

First, types of trigger statuses could be:

1. NEW (new trigger, we know nothing about it. Can be after adding new host)
2. INIT (zabbix server was just started or restarted)
3. OFF
4. ON
5. UNKNOWN

Now we could make alerter more sofisticated and to look into trigger transition, not value. I mean:

1. Zabbix admin wants to know when anything becames to unknown. But users are not interested in this situation.
2. Zabbix admin wants to know when anything is back from unknown. But users are interested only if last state is ON.
3. Zabbix admin maybe needs to know that new trigger was added (state NEW to something)
4. Users can be insterested only in some transition, eg. ON to OFF, OFF to ON, UNKNOWN to ON or INIT to ON or NEW to ON.
5. Sometimes it is good to filter new triggers from sending. I mean, somebody will add host, and first state is not interesting for him (until he configure it), so he will filter NEW to anything.

Thanx!

[glut0r]

additionally, there could be different colors indicating different trigger-states, as I wrote here

[limo]

additionally, there could be different colors indicating different trigger-states, as I wrote here

Yes, good idea, next status could be DEPENDS when trigger is ON but DEPENDS on another one.

[bachhause]

Good idea, but i have a question: does someone know were to find the Number of triggers state "Unknown"

Can't find it and my dashboard say's there are 2 triggers UNKNOWN.

Thnx for your time.

Bachhause