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Zabbix Cookbook

You're reading from   Zabbix Cookbook Over 70 hands-on recipes to get your infrastructure up and running with Zabbix

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784397586
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Patrik Uytterhoeven Patrik Uytterhoeven
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Zabbix Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Around in Zabbix 3. Groups, Users, and Permissions 4. Monitoring with Zabbix 5. Testing with Triggers in Zabbix 6. Working with Templates 7. Data Visualization and Reporting in Zabbix 8. Monitoring VMware and Proxies 9. Autodiscovery 10. Zabbix Maintenance and API A. Upgrading and Troubleshooting Zabbix Index

Acknowledging triggers

In this recipe we will see how to acknowledge triggers when they happen. Why do you need to know? To save others the frustration of looking into a problem that has already been resolved by you.

Getting ready

To be able to acknowledge some triggers, you need a complete functional Zabbix installation. To acknowledge some trigger, you need a failure on one of the triggers. If no trigger is in alarm then you could try for example, to increase the CPU load or stop the service from the Zabbix client.

How to do it...

When we go in Zabbix to our web interface, we have a list with the last 20 issues. As you can see, we have multiple columns with one being the Last change.

  1. This column is the date and time when the item had its last status change. The next column Age will tell us how long the problem is already there.
  2. The Ack column will allow us to acknowledge the problem. This way we can work in an organized way with multiple people in Zabbix:
    How to do it...
  3. When we click on the Ack button, we...
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