It hurts to admit it, but this is just another preview and not something that is ready to be released to the general public! But don’t think that I took it easy: I spent a lot of time cleaning up and restructuring the code. I worked on new features and some fundamental issues and then I thought: Instead of going for 3.4, which is nearing its end of life, rather aim for 4.0, which will become the next LTS!

In hindsight, I am not upset with this decision, but unfortunately it added a lot more complexity to the job and that is why it is not done! This is where you could come in: I am looking for help on the frontend part. Please read on if you are interested and let me know!

If you don’t know what Action Simulator is and why is it great, consider reading the introductory post first.

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If Zabbix keeps on surprising you with its notifications, you might want to try the Action Simulator! The Action Simulator is a community patch that helps you to figure out whether your actions really do as you intend. It first came out for Zabbix 2.0 in 2013 and was downloaded by hundreds of users from all around the world.

The following article gives a brief introduction to the Action Simulator and explains the challenges of developing it for Zabbix 3.2.

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