zabbix-1.1alpha6 and zabbix_sender

[maria]

I need to use zabbix_sender, but I am very confused about its usage, because have to write in the shell the following line, for example, for the key diskfree[/home]:

maria@blossom bin $ ./zabbix_sender 192.168.100.150 10051 blossom:diskfree[/home] 33

where 33 is the value for diskfree[/home], I mean, I have to introduce the value. What I need is that zabbix_sender catch that information on its own from the monitorized machine and don't know how.
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[Alexei]

What you're trying to achieve? Why do you need zabbix_sender?

zabbix_sender just sends data to the ZABBIX server. The data has to be given as a parameter to the binary. That's it. It doesn't do anything else.

[maria]

Why zabbix_sender

We want to monitorize a few characteristics of some embedded machines, such as processor load, number of running processes, free swap space...and I need that the communication is in just one-way direction (from client to Zabbix server) for security reasons. That is why I need zabbix_sender. However this process must be automatically and periodically executed.
We have already worked out a script that takes the information we need from the machine and sends it to zabbix_server, and have inserted it in the cron. Do you think it would be posible to make zabbix_sender as a deamon, instead?
Thank you in advance

[Alexei]

ZABBIX v1.1 will support active checks, i.e. checks initiated by ZABBIX agent itself. It means that the agent will periodically connect to the server and send required information.

[Wolfgang]

ZABBIX v1.1 will support active checks, i.e. checks initiated by ZABBIX agent itself. It means that the agent will periodically connect to the server and send required information.

Is this functionallity already part of V1.1A7 ?

[Alexei]

Is this functionallity already part of V1.1A7 ?

No, it's not. I plan to release it in 1.1alpha8.