Message of the Day
Zabbix frontend module notifies users and administrators about important actions, events and updates in the environment.
Description
The “Message of the Day” module was created to notify users and administrators of the Zabbix frontend. It informs them about actions and events within the Zabbix environment or the monitored infrastructure. This module provides timely and relevant information. Its goal is to ensure that all stakeholders are aware of important updates and potential maintenance windows.
This module is not connected to the “Maintenance” feature.
Requirements
Required Zabbix version
7.0
Required PHP version
8.0
Message bar
- The bar displays a message for users, showing “Active since” with the start date and “Active till” with the end date.
- The message bar is displayed at the top of the application screen for its entire duration.
- It can be closed, but it will reappear when a different page is loaded.
- This is an intentional feature – no user can claim they accidentally closed the message and were unaware of the event.
- It can be closed, but it will reappear when a different page is loaded.
Administration screen
- The module can only be configured by users with Super Admin rights.
- You can see all set up message events with filtering options by name and status (Any, Active, Approaching, Expired).
Editions
Free
199,00 $
per year for 1 subscription
Custom messages name
Custom messages for users
Custom active since timestamp
Custom active till timestamp
Creating messages
Unlimited number of messages created in module
Show since feature
Repeat feature
Message bar color settings
Translate HTML tags to Message bar
Removing initMAX brand from message bar
Editions
Free
Custom messages name
Custom messages for users
Custom active since timestamp
Custom active till timestamp
Creating messages
Unlimited number of messages created in module
Show since feature
Repeat feature
Message bar color settings
Translate HTML tags to Message bar
Removing initMAX brand from message bar
199,00 $
per year for 1 subscription
Custom messages name
Custom messages for users
Custom active since timestamp
Custom active till timestamp
Creating messages
Unlimited number of messages created in module
Show since feature
Repeat feature
Message bar color settings
Translate HTML tags to Message bar
Removing initMAX brand from message bar
Configuration page
- You can set a new message by clicking the button in the right corner of the administration screen.
Repeate Feature
- This option allows you to set recurrence for displaying regular messages.
- After enabling the feature, you will see recurrence options:
- Set the frequency of recurrence:
- Every N day, week, month, year
- Set the end of recurrence:
- Never, on a specific date, or after N occurrences
- Set the frequency of recurrence:
Allow HTML tags
- This option allows you to insert HTML tags into the message, which will be translated
- Enabling to you better format the text or insert links into the message bar itself.
- Example:
- Upgrade Zabbix environment to 7.0.0 (Zabbix Release Notes)
Instalation
- Connect to your Zabbix frontend server (perform on all frontend nodes)
- Navigate to the
ui/modules/directory (uiis typically located at/usr/share/zabbix/)
cd /usr/share/zabbix/modules/- Clone repository on your server
git clone https://git.initmax.cz/initMAX-Public/Zabbix-UI-Modules-Message-of-the-Day.gitChange the owner of directory to your web user with chown
Choose default OS user
- nginx
chown nginx:nginx ./Zabbix-UI-Modules-Message-of-the-Day- apache (RHEL)
chown apache:apache ./Zabbix-UI-Modules-Message-of-the-Day- apache (DEB)
chown www-data:www-data ./Zabbix-UI-Modules-Message-of-the-Day- Add writable rule for
vardirectory withchmod +w
chmod +R +w ./Zabbix-UI-Modules-Message-of-the-Day-PRO/var- Go to Zabbix frontend menu -> Administration -> General -> Modules
- Use the Scan directory button on the top
- Enable the newly discovered module
- Done
- Use it and enjoy!
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You will need to have Zabbix 7.0 and PHP version 8.0 installed and running. In terms of hardware, you need any device that will run Zabbix correctly.