2 Service actions

2 Service actions

Overview

In this section you can view and configure service actions.

Service actions are useful if you want some operations taking place as a result of service status change (OK ⇿ PROBLEM), for example:

send message
restart webserver

Service actions are functionally similar to other action types in Zabbix (for example, trigger actions).

Configuration

To create a new service action, click on Create action.

For more details, see configuring actions.

Conditions

The following conditions can be used in service actions:

Condition type	Supported operators	Description
Service	equals does not equal	Specify a service or a service to exclude. equals - event belongs to this service. does not equal - event does not belong to this service. Specifying a parent service implicitly selects all child services. To specify the parent service only, all nested services have to be additionally set with the does not equal operator.
Service name	contains does not contain	Specify a string in the service name or a string to exclude. contains - event is generated by a service, containing this string in the name. does not contain - this string cannot be found in the service name.
Service tag name	equals does not equal contains does not contain	Specify an event tag or an event tag to exclude. Service event tags can be defined in the service configuration section Tags. equals - event has this tag does not equal - event does not have this tag contains - event has a tag containing this string does not contain - event does not have a tag containing this string.
Service tag value	equals does not equal contains does not contain	Specify an event tag and value combination or a tag and value combination to exclude. Service event tags can be defined in the service configuration section Tags. equals - event has this tag and value does not equal - event does not have this tag and value contains - event has a tag and value containing these strings does not contain - event does not have a tag and value containing these strings.