Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Internal events and unknown triggers

Alerting on unsupported items, which we covered a moment ago, is likely the best approach, as it allows us to have a small number of triggers and a relatively easy way to split up alerting about them. There's another built-in approach that allows us to alert about unsupported items and triggers in an unknown state; Zabbix has the concept of internal events.

To configure an alert based on those internal events, follow these steps:

Go to Configuration | Actions, choose Internal in the Event source drop-down menu and click on Create action. In the Action tab, enter these values:

• Name: A trigger changed state to unknown
• In the New condition block, select Event type in the first drop-down menu, and choose ...