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 ...

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