Trigger on ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED with Zabbix

I figured it out! My setup was correct afterall. Here's what was happening:

Triggers are only set when a state changes, therefore all my triggers were either false OR true and were not changing state as the items I was monitoring were not changing state either.

To successfully test my triggers, I had to do this:

1. Make an item to ping a server every 5 sec (you can just use a default template item but I wanted results fast...)

2. Make an action for my server which gets executed if:

   Trigger severity >= "Warning" AND Host = "My Server"

3. I then created a trigger which gets set if ping = 1 (which it always does...) and volia! I received an email

The problem I was having was that by creating my "test trigger" before my "test alert" the trigger was already getting set before my alert was saved. And so... i had no idea why I wasn't seeing any notifications.

The zabbix_sender program is going to be your most portable way to push the item into the Zabbix db. You will need to write a script which takes the resultant data, splits it into two then sends the two items back using the zabbix_sender as it can handle mutliple values, if properly formatted.

Zabbix Sender man page