manual:concepts:sender
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| - | ==== - #6 Sender ==== | + | ==== 6 Sender ==== |
| === Overview === | === Overview === | ||
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| The utility is usually used in long running user scripts for periodical sending of availability and performance data. | The utility is usually used in long running user scripts for periodical sending of availability and performance data. | ||
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| + | For sending results directly to Zabbix server or proxy, a [[:manual/config/items/itemtypes/trapper|trapper item]] type must be configured. | ||
| === Running Zabbix sender === | === Running Zabbix sender === | ||
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| <note important>Options that contain whitespaces, must be quoted using double quotes.</note> | <note important>Options that contain whitespaces, must be quoted using double quotes.</note> | ||
| - | See [[manpages:zabbix_sender|Zabbix sender manpage]] for more information. | + | Zabbix sender can be used to send multiple values from an input file. See the [[manpages:zabbix_sender|Zabbix sender manpage]] for more information. |
| - | Zabbix sender accepts strings in UTF-8 encoding (for both UNIX-like systems and Windows). | + | Zabbix sender accepts strings in UTF-8 encoding (for both UNIX-like systems and Windows) without byte order mark (BOM) first in the file. |
| Zabbix sender on Windows can be run similarly: | Zabbix sender on Windows can be run similarly: | ||
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| Since Zabbix 1.8.4, zabbix_sender realtime sending scenarios have been improved to gather multiple values passed to it in close succession and send them to the server in a single connection. A value that is not further apart from the previous value than 0.2 seconds can be put in the same stack, but maximum pooling time still is 1 second. | Since Zabbix 1.8.4, zabbix_sender realtime sending scenarios have been improved to gather multiple values passed to it in close succession and send them to the server in a single connection. A value that is not further apart from the previous value than 0.2 seconds can be put in the same stack, but maximum pooling time still is 1 second. | ||
| - | <note>Zabbix sender will terminate if invalid (not following //parameter=value// notation) parameter entry is present in specified configuration file.</note> | + | <note>Zabbix sender will terminate if invalid (not following //parameter=value// notation) parameter entry is present in the specified configuration file.</note> |