Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Creating an action

Now, it's time to tie all this together and tell Zabbix that we want to receive email notifications when our test box is experiencing a heavy load.

Things that tell the Zabbix server to do something upon certain conditions are called actions. An action has three main components:

• Main configuration: This allows us to set up general options, such as the email subject and the message.
• Action operations: These specify what exactly has to be done, including who to send the message to and what message to send.
• Action conditions: These allow us to specify when this action is used and when operations are performed. Zabbix allows us to set many detailed conditions, including hosts, host groups, times, specific problems (triggers) ...