Collect many data items at once

[elbriga]

Hi,
Just starting with zabbix.
Used cacti before and I have some scripts to collect data, but they output the items like this:
itemname:itemvalue item2:val2 item3:val3

so with just one script exec it would collect many data items.

Can I do something like this on Zabbix?

[eskytthe]

You can use zabbix_sender at the agent (maybe best for you with the input file options):
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_sender
Br
Erik

[jthakrar]

Here's an example of zabbix_sender from a script.

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#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Check the size of $DATA_FILE. If it is not empty, use zabbix_sender to send data to Zabbix.
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if [[ -s $DATA_FILE ]]
then
zabbix_sender -vv -z 127.0.0.1 -i $DATA_FILE 2>>$LOG_FILE 1>>$LOG_FILE
echo -e "Successfully executed $COMMAND_LINE" >>$LOG_FILE
else
echo "Error in executing $COMMAND_LINE" >> $LOG_FILE
fi

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$DATA_FILE is the location of a script that has the ouput in the form of
<hostname_as_defined_in_zabbix> <item_name> <item_value>

Here's what an example file contains -


PRD_JobTracker jobtracker_state RUNNING
PRD_JobTracker jobtracker_start_time Mon Dec 05 20:12:59 CST 2011
PRD_JobTracker hadoop_version 0.20.2-cdh3u0
PRD_JobTracker running_map_tasks 235
PRD_JobTracker running_reduce_tasks 0
PRD_JobTracker total_jobs_submitted 1658
PRD_JobTracker total_nodes 30
PRD_JobTracker occupied_map_slots 235
PRD_JobTracker occupied_reduce_slots 0
PRD_JobTracker reserved_map_slots 0
PRD_JobTracker reserved_reduce_slots 0
PRD_JobTracker map_task_capacity 270
PRD_JobTracker reduce_task_capacity 120
PRD_JobTracker avg_task_capacity_per_node 13.00
PRD_JobTracker blacklisted_nodes 0
PRD_JobTracker excluded_nodes 0
PRD_JobTracker running_jobs 1
PRD_JobTracker completed_jobs 71
PRD_JobTracker failed_jobs 12
PRD_JobTracker retired_jobs 100
PRD_JobTracker ping_check PASSED