execution of local scripts

[philipp]

Hi,

maybe I am missing something, but: is there a way to execute a script on the server for monitoring? ie. something like
exec,/opt/zabbix/http_performance.sh,"http://www.kernel.org/"

which would execute http_performance.sh locally on the zabbix server?

Thanks,
Philipp

[primos]

Zabbix External

Hy,

this was brought up before and it's called "Zabbix External" , method announced for Zabbix 1.1 ! I hope.

But you can use use CRON for the job and end your scripts with zabbix sender and zabbix agent (active) item waiting for results, works great.
I have this external method but I'm thinking to reverse to CVS core CODE and running "cron-style-check".I'm tired of patching!

Patch to 1.1alpha12 diff file!

http://silos.gorkic.com/zabb/patch.txt

[philipp]

wow - thanks for the speedy reply...

this was brought up before and it's called "Zabbix External" , method announced for Zabbix 1.1 ! I hope.

ohh, I hope so too

But you can use use CRON for the job and end your scripts with zabbix sender and zabbix agent (active) item waiting for results, works great.
I have this external method but I'm thinking to reverse to CVS core CODE and running "cron-style-check".I'm tired of patching!

hmmm... a bit dodgy. What I am really trying to do is monitor ie. packet loss on leased lines. The lines are in zabbix already. Granted, I could write a script, that queries all lines, run the checks and then report back via zabbix_sender. hmmm...

Patch to 1.1alpha12 diff file!

http://silos.gorkic.com/zabb/patch.txt

...I'll have a look at that, thanks!

EDIT:
hmmm.... apart from the fact, that I get an error trying to apply the patch: has anyone made an effort to update this to a current version?

# patch -Cf -p1 < ../patch.txt
Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -uNr zabbix-1.1alpha12.orig/frontends/php/include/defines.inc.php
|zabbix-1.1alpha12/frontends/php/include/defines.inc.php
|--- zabbix-1.1alpha12.orig/frontends/php/include/defines.inc.php 2005-08-12
|17:35:35.000000000 +1000
|+++ zabbix-1.1alpha12/frontends/php/include/defines.inc.php 2005-08-17
|18:28:49.704146648 +1000
--------------------------
Patching file frontends/php/include/defines.inc.php using Plan A...
patch: **** malformed patch at line 8: define("ITEM_TYPE_INTERNAL",5);

[primos]

Better yet read them from proc or capture prom proc sleep then capture again, and some math.

All you need to know is
"4294967296" - counter in Linux for calculating the counter reset !

[primos]

external

I applied it to beta1 with fixed trigger evaluation, I don't have src no more but I have SuSE SLES 9 binaries (If you need them). The truth is I have 20-30 dir's of zabbix src from alpha12-beta5 and I'm not really shure which one was the working one(the code).

I applied the patch manually to beta1/beta2 code.I tried to apply it to beta5 or CVS but there were some changes in the core and these functions need to be rewritten (some reduction in vars), I decided not to waste any more time on this since I have other things to do.


I think this patch shouild be in CVS a long time ago, but needs to be added some time frame for safety(so It doesn's stop the core on many concurrent timeouts).