Setting up alerts

Alerting can be a very important part of your Zabbix setup. When we set up alerts, we want the person on the other end to be informed of just what is going on. It's also important to not spam someone with alerts; we want it to be effective.

So, in this recipe, we will go over the basics of setting up alerts, so we know just how to get it right from the start.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will only need two things. We will have to use our Zabbix server to create our alerts and we will need some triggers, like the triggers from the previous recipe. The triggers will be used to initiate the alerting process to see just how Zabbix server will convey this information.

How to do it…

1. Let's start by setting up our action in the Zabbix frontend. To do this, we will navigate to Configuration | Actions and we will be served with this screen:

   Figure 3.10 – The Zabbix Trigger actions page with 1 trigger action

   There already is one...