4 Trapper items

Overview

Zabbix server uses a JSON- based communication protocol for receiving data from Zabbix sender with the help of trapper item.

Request and response messages must begin with header and data length.

Zabbix sender request

{
    "request":"sender data",
    "data":[
        {
            "host":"<hostname>",
            "key":"trap",
            "value":"test value"
        }
    ]
}

Zabbix server response

{
    "response":"success",
    "info":"processed: 1; failed: 0; total: 1; seconds spent: 0.060753"
}

Zabbix sender request with a timestamp

Alternatively Zabbix sender can send a request with a timestamp and nanoseconds.

{
    "request":"sender data",
    "data":[
        {
            "host":"<hostname>",
            "key":"trap",
            "value":"test value",
            "clock":1516710794,
            "ns":592397170
        },
        {
            "host":"<hostname>",
            "key":"trap",
            "value":"test value",
            "clock":1516710795,
            "ns":192399456
        }
    ],
    "clock":1516712029,
    "ns":873386094
}

Zabbix server response

{
    "response":"success",
    "info":"processed: 2; failed: 0; total: 2; seconds spent: 0.060904"
}