Zabbix now has a CLI tool!

nelsonab · #1 23-10-2009, 11:31

Sorry for the cross-post, but since this is a few tool for use with 1.7 I felt it best to post this here too.

After some deliberation and discussion with Richlv I've decided to name the CLI tool Zabcon.

Since the tool was announced a fair amount of progress has been made. It is now possible to add, edit, update and delete a user a user. Show items, hosts, and host groups. Work is being done to allow for adding and deleting of hosts and items. It will also be possible to edit existing items in the near future.

And if all that is not enough, it is possible to pipe your commands into the tool from within a shell script!

Attached is a screen shot giving you all an idea of where we are so far.

Please head over the the site I have setup to for development and take a look. I also encourage you to download Zabcon and provide some feedback. Zabcon has been tested to work under both Linux and Windows.

A Trac site has been setup to support the development efforts, on the main page there are also instructions for downloading from the subversion repository.
http://trac.red-tux.net

MrKen · #2 23-10-2009, 11:53

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Originally Posted by nelsonab

And if all that is not enough, it is possible to pipe your commands into the tool from within a shell script!

This is all very interesting and exciting!

Pipe commands into the tool from within a script. What about this scenario?
A trigger fires, the Action calls a script, the script calls on Zabcon to enable or disable an item. [I'm thinking here about Switch ports, when the ifOperStatus changes, to auto enable/disable the port].

Looking forward to giving it a whirl! And many thanks to you for your fine efforts nelsonab.

BR/MrKen

nelsonab · #3 23-10-2009, 12:21

Soon that will be quite possible :-)

One thing to note, if you're going to use it within a script you'll need to login to the server first. The easiest way to accomplish this is to setup a conf file, and then issue the command "load config" first.

example:

Code:

echo -e load config\\n get user | ./zabcon
x86_64-linux
Welcome to the Zabbix CLI Tool.
Use the command 'help' to get help on commands
http://localhost connected
User result set
+--------+----------+
| userid | alias    |
+--------+----------+
| 40     | "a=b"    |
| 1      | Admin    |
| 2      | guest    |
| 3      | nelsonab |
| 4      | apitest  |
+--------+----------+
5 rows total

Alexei · #4 23-10-2009, 13:42

Great tool! The release notes for Zabbix 1.7.1 has a reference to this thread.

zabbix_zen · #5 23-10-2009, 14:25

I think all the community thanks you for your efforts nelsonab.
Missed that tool for a long time!

Congrats

nelsonab · #6 31-10-2009, 08:10

A quick little update for folks, we just had our 100th commit and now we're up to three active developers.

Some recent changes in no particular order, host.add, import from xml file, command line start options basic trigger manipulation, and improved output handling.

Expect to see a lot more neath things from Zabcon over the next few weeks!

richlv · #7 31-10-2009, 22:05

two developers. and one pedantic fiddler.