LLD for vfs.file.time

[ang3lwich]

Looking for a better way to get file.time from all individual directories in /backups/$company-name
So basically looking for zabbix to show me individually all time stamps for company-name directories

Currently it is a manual/cloning process.

currently my manual key is as follows:
vfs.file.time[/backups/super-company,modify]

Item works well and gives me the correct timestamp, just need a faster,better way of doing that.

I can only think with some macros

[ang3lwich]

Yes, I suppose that is the solution.
Thanks for the reply.

[cyber]

I guess yo need to choose your favourite language, make a script that lists all directories and performs stat on them and then formats output nicely as json. Define it as UserParameter and use it for discovery, create items and gather data.

[mwildam]

You would create an item that runs an external script directly (or use an item key that is defined in userparams) which basically does something like this (bash script here - and you should pass the MACRONAME as a prefix for your reported variables to the script*):

[...]
ZABBIXCFG="/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf"
HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
MACROFULLNAME=${MACRONAME}FULLNAME
MACRODIRNAME=${MACRONAME}DIR
MACROFILENAME=${MACRONAME}FILENAME
MACROFNAME=${MACRONAME}NAME
MACROFEXT=${MACRONAME}EXT
RESPONSE=""
[...]
for FILE in $FILES; do
    DIRNAME=$(dirname $FILE)
    FILENAME=$(basename $FILE)
    FNAME=${FILENAME%.*}
   FEXT=${FILENAME##*.}
    ITEM="{"
   ITEM+="\"{#$MACROFULLNAME}\":\"$FILE\", \"{#$MACROFILENAME}\":\"$FILENAME\", \"{#$MACRODIRNAME}\":\"$DIRNAME\""
   ITEM+=", \"{#$MACROFNAME}\":\"$FNAME\", \"{#$MACROFEXT}\":\"$FEXT\""
   ITEM+="}"
   RESPONSE+=$ITEM
done
[...]
zabbix_sender -c $ZABBIXCFG -s $HOSTNAME -k "$RECEIVERITEM" -o "$RESPONSE"

Then you can use these macros in your item prototypes.

*) You will need different macro prefix names if you want to use your script several times for different directories and file sets - otherwise on LLD either one or the other set will get potentially removed.
Or you can also alternatively have one script that collects all files in all directories together. - However then you will not be able to have different configurations for them.