Message of the Day

Description

This Zabbix module informs users and administrators about important events. It provides a centralized location for sharing critical updates, maintenance notifications, or other relevant information to all system users. It supports Zabbix 6.0 – 7.4; FREE covers one-time announcements and PRO adds recurrence, series limits and HTML content.

Usage examples

The Zabbix administrator wants to notify users that Zabbix Summit 2025 is approaching and that the agenda is being prepared. Users will see this message every day from the beginning of September until the end of the summit. Optionally, users can click a link to view the agenda of the summit.

Installation

Message of the Day is distributed as a standard deb/rpm package from our repository repo.initmax.com. The package detects your frontend version and deploys the matching module tree into it. It supports Zabbix 6.0 – 7.4 and is HA ready – multi-frontend / HA setups work out of the box, just install the package on every frontend node.

Connect to the server running the Zabbix frontend over SSH (do this on every frontend node) and pick your distribution. Would you rather have a plain archive? Every release also ships as a ZIP – FREE straight from the repository, PRO from the customer portal once you sign in – handy for offline or manual installs.

RHEL / Rocky / Alma

SUSE

Debian / Ubuntu

Verification 

The module is enabled automatically during the package installation. You can verify it in the Zabbix frontend menu: Administration → General → Modules

If the module was already running on that frontend (from an earlier package or from a manual installation), the package keeps its state – a module you disabled on purpose stays disabled – and the old manual copy is cleaned up as well, so the module never shows up twice in the module list. Updates then arrive through your package manager (apt / dnf / zypper) like any other system package.

Configuration

Field	Description
Name	The name of the event.
Show since	Used to inform users in advance that an event will occur. Specifies the date and time from which the message is displayed to users. Additionally, it is possible to define the color of the message bar until the event becomes active.
Active since	Specifies the point in time from which the event is active. During this period, it is possible to define the color of the message bar to indicate the event’s status.
Active till	The point in time when the event is deactivated.
Repeat	This option allows you to set recurrence for displaying regular messages.
Message	The message for users that will be displayed in the message bar.
Allow HTML tags	Enable HTML tag translation in the message bar.

Where to get it?

If you’re interested in this module, you can find it in our e-shop. There you’ll learn more about the available versions and how to get the product.