I just found another big point in Zabbix' favour. It is able to send decoupled information as part of a particular notification. For example I track my UPS battery minutes remaining and I track whether my UPS is actually on battery as 2 totally separate data points leading to triggers, alarms etc.
If I detect an UPS on battery event I can look up any information in the zabbix database that i want and send it along - in this case the UPS minutes remaining. Compare this to the standard "help - Im on battery" alert that you get every 5 minutes with no further info (without logging in). In the same way if you have 2 servers for load balancing and one goes critical, zabbix could send you the status of the other server as part of the alert message for this first. This is pretty nice! It may well exist in other systems, but I was happy to trip over it. Rob _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
