Strange Action behaviour

[H_Man]

Hello everyone,

Yesterday i stumbled across some strange behaviour with zabbix 1.1 concerning the definition of actions.
In my setup i have defined a template with one icmpping item and one trigger "Host offline" which goes TRUE whenever a host is not pingable for 5 minutes. Till here everything's fine. When i shut down a test host created with this template the trigger fires up.

Only problem I have is, that if I define an action with conditions "Trigger=Host offline" (the one from the template) and "Trigger Value=On" no Message is being sent. If I however define that action with "Trigger=Host offline" from the host itself, the action fires up and the notification gets send.

I intend to use this ping-check for about a 100 remote hosts in my network, but as it looks i would have to define one action per host i'd like to check, which would result in hundreds of action definitions for one and the same notification.

What i'd like to know is this a bug or intended by design (and if so maybe why?). Developer feedback appreciated.

H_Man

[Alexei]

Only problem I have is, that if I define an action with conditions "Trigger=Host offline" (the one from the template) and "Trigger Value=On" no Message is being sent. If I however define that action with "Trigger=Host offline" from the host itself, the action fires up and the notification gets send.

I intend to use this ping-check for about a 100 remote hosts in my network, but as it looks i would have to define one action per host i'd like to check, which would result in hundreds of action definitions for one and the same notification.

It is supposed to work this way. It makes no sense to define actions for a templates as they are not propagated to linked hosts.

I would suggest to create an action having condition "Trigger description like 'Host offline'". The action will work for all 100 hosts.

[H_Man]

Ok, i'll try this.
Thanks for the quick reply!

H_Man

[rose]

install ok

Hi H-Man,


I hope your installation is operative now.
I sent a post yesterday about Zabbix_agent which I thought not OK.
Nobody answered but It seems to be normal ( the agent only listens on the port 10050 ).


Could you tell me if you've a zabbix_suckerd and trapperd and if so how do you use them.

Thank you for your help


Regards