Media limits for users

We looked at what limits an action can impose, but there are also possible limits per media. Navigate to Administration | Users and click on Admin in the ALIAS column. Switch to the Media tab and click on Add, next to the only media we have created here:

Admin level users may change their own media. Normal users cannot change their own media.

When considering limits, we are mostly interested in two sections here—When active and Use if severity.

As the name indicates, the first of these allows us to set a period when media is used. Days are represented by the numbers 1-7, and a 24-hour clock notation of HH:MM-HH:MM is used. Several periods can be combined, separated by semi- colons. This way, it is possible to send an SMS to a technician during weekends and at night, an email during workdays, and an email to a help desk during working hours.

In case you are wondering, the week starts on Monday.

For example, a media active period like this might be useful for an employee who has different working hours over the course of the week:

1-3,09:00-13:00;4-5,13:00-17:00

Notifications would be sent out as follows:

Monday to Wednesday, from 09:00 until 13:00
Thursday and Friday, from 13:00 until 17:00

This period works together with the time period condition in actions. The action for this user will only be carried out when both periods overlap.

Use if severity is very useful as well, since that poor technician might not want to receive informative SMS messages at night—just those indicating a potential disaster.

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In older versions, it was not possible to add multiple email addresses. Since the release of Zabbix 4.0, it is now possible to add multiple addresses for one user.

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