actions configured with templates

[hulting74]

Hi

Anyone got this working?

I have configured a "action" against a template (Template_Windows) instead of a host, is this something that should work or not?

Example:
Trigger = "Low free disk space on Template_Windows volume c:"

Thanks

[jroberson]

I think you need to rephrase your condition to use "Like" instead of "=". When you do so don't put the template name, ie "Template_Windows", in the definition. When Zabbix checks for triggers for actions, I beleve it looks at the whole text of the trigger, not by Template.

For example:
1. I have a host name "win_host" that is part of the "template_win" template.
2. When the trigger fires is says "Low disk space on win_host drive c:"
3. The action looks for a value like "Low disk space on".
4. It finds it and does the action.


I hope that works. I had to learn that one the hard way.

[richlv]

i think actions should work against templates - at least as claimed here

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=34128#post34128

so if they still do not work, that might be a bug

[hulting74]

Mr jroberson, sadly there is no way to select "LIKE" in actions when you have selected "Trigger" only "=" is available. :-)

I did get it to work when using "Trigger Description" instead, where "LIKE" is available, but i think thats not a good solution. I would like to use Templates as much as possible.

I have now upgraded to version 1.6.4, i will do another try and see if it was a previous version hickup...

Regards

[jroberson]

Mr jroberson, sadly there is no way to select "LIKE" in actions when you have selected "Trigger" only "=" is available. :-)

I did get it to work when using "Trigger Description" instead, where "LIKE" is available, but i think thats not a good solution. I would like to use Templates as much as possible.

I have now upgraded to version 1.6.4, i will do another try and see if it was a previous version hickup...

Regards

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that. Yes you are right, "Trigger Description" is what I meant. If you use "Trigger =" you can look for specific hosts' triggers, but you have to use "Trigger Description like" for templates. I agree that is it a little counter intuitive, but that is just what I have found. There might be another way like richlv mentioned, but I haven't used that feature yet.