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  • sloth101
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 9

    #1

    Actions - strange behavior

    I have an Action setup to alert a mail group if any one of a given list of device groups have a Trigger Severity of >= Warning AND Trigger Value = PROBLEM. This breaks down as such:

    A through G = Server Type (so ST-A is server type A etc etc)
    H = "Trigger Severity >= Warning"
    I = "Trigger Value = PROBLEM"

    (A OR B ORC OR D OR E OR F OR G) AND (H) AND (I)

    So about a week after the upgrade to 1.6.5 we all of a sudden had this Action sending alerts to a Mail Group even though the hosts were NOT in any of the groups defined in this action. Looked around the system both via the GUI as well as the Database to see if the group had somehow been added to the Action, then deleted but not removed from the database and this was not the case. ( I should say that this does not appear to be the case, if you know specifically how this query should be formed to rule this out please reply)

    Upon a restart of the Zabbix Server process this problem "seemed" to go away.

    Now roughly a week later we had the same thing happen. A host that was NOT in any of the defined groups went down and an email was sent to the mail group.

    Their are no escalations defined to cause this, nor is the action that the rogue group is in set to send an email to this group.

    Has anyone seen or is seeing this type of behavior? And/Or where can I start to run down how this is occurring? Assistance greatly appreciated!
    Last edited by sloth101; 02-07-2009, 22:57. Reason: Changed a few of the last words to actual English words.
  • sloth101
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 9

    #2
    Just following up in case someone else has seen this type of activity in an install. I went out of town on a hiking trip shortly after posting this and have just returned, hence just now following up.

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    • stan.vasiljev
      Junior Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 28

      #3
      I want to upgrade my 1.6.1 server and look for serious bugs of 1.6.5.
      So, have you any progress with your problem ?

      My experience with actions: it's hard to debug their behavior, but I try to do it by including various macroses into the message body. Sometimes, it's useful to add some test actions with similar expressions to determine which part of expression produces wrong alerts.
      And scheduled server restart - very useful for zabbix to avoid unpredictable behavior.

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      • sloth101
        Junior Member
        • Mar 2009
        • 9

        #4
        No real progress to report so far unless the server restart to make the problem go away for a week or so would count. Having to restart to clear this issue is very troubling and leads to concerns about Zabbix Stability.

        I had added in some more details to the alerts in the hope that this would lead to more information, and have been waiting to see if this produces anything.

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        • stan.vasiljev
          Junior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 28

          #5
          http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11912 - similar problem with workaround.

          frequent server restart - simple way to keep zabbix well-working for long time. Almost an aphorism

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          • sloth101
            Junior Member
            • Mar 2009
            • 9

            #6
            Nothing so far on this as it has not resurfaced. I really don't like random problems.

            Will update with more information as I have it.

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