Flexible intervals

[renx123]

Hello!

I hope sb. can help, I am running out of options here.
Situation is like this: I want to monitor a retail store customer counter system through zabbix. I have a bash script that makes a mysql query and reports back the result with number of visitors. So from zabbix I am looking for information when there is 0 data from mysql or there is no data change between 2 last checks (about 2-3hour intervals)
I am doing a External check to the script like this:
counter.sh[-shop 1]

Problem is that it's not possible to use flexible intervals. I need to exclude hours that are not working time because the counters report 0 data in the nights and make triggers go off.

I have tried:
Interval 3600sec
0, 1-7,21:00-12:00

or

Interval 0sec
3600,1-7, 12:00-21:00

nothing works, it still checks during the offline hours. From the forums I found that it is not possible to do this with flexible intervals. Is there any other suggestion how to deal with this situation? Using UserParameters or zabbix_sender is not very good idea. I'd like that it would be easy to add a new shop so that there is no need to connect to shell and edit configs.



Rene

[tiagosoares]

Hey,

You need to use Maintenance (under Configuration - Maintenance).

Just put the host in maintenance mode during the off hours.

T.

[Tractorboy]

Maintenance??

I have tried maintenance, but found

1) Alerts still fire.
2) Maintenance is on a server, but I need to only stop collecting specific items.

Any further thoughts?

[untergeek]

Did you change your action to recognize Maintenance status = Not in or in maintenance?

Did you specify with or without data collection in your maintenance window?

[trikke]

in your triggers use: trigger.last()=0 & (trigger.time() < 120000 | trigger.time() < 21000)

You see what I mean? if the Time "calculation" is FALSE Your trigger will never fire during this timeperiod


Greets
Patrick