Check for new Zabbix releases HOTWO (Linux)

[skygge]

Hello,

I'm too lazy to enter the Zabbix webpage to check for new releases, so I made Zabbix Server to check that for me and display "warning" on the dashboard.

All these steps are made on zabbix server.

First, in system crontab I wrote command to get latest zabbix release.
Once a day is enough for me:

crontab -e

00 9 * * * wget --output-document=/tmp/zabbix.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/files/ZABBIX%20Latest%20Stable/ && cat /tmp/zabbix.html|grep tar.gz|grep Download|sed "s/[ \t][ \t]*/ /g"|cut -d " " -f 3 > /tmp/zabbix_release.txt

Zabbix Item, check every 24 hours (86400 seconds):

system.run[cat /tmp/zabbix_release.txt,wait]

Zabbix Trigger:

{hostname:system.run[cat /tmp/zabbix_release.txt,wait].abschange(0)}>0

That's all.
Cheers!

[nelsonab]

But you're on the forum and they're always announced here. ;-)

[skygge]

I'm on the forum, yeah, twice a year

[JBo]

Hi,

I'm on the forum, yeah, twice a year

I have subscribed to RSS of "Zabbix Announcements" section in the forum.

It works most of the time (1.8.5 wasn't announced there )

Regards,
JBo