zabbix media type - script - on 1.4.6

[loki]

Hey All,

Running zabbix 1.4.6 and running into issues with the media type script...

zabbix_server.conf relevant bit..

AlertScriptsPath=/home/zabbix/bin/

script is called sms.sh - just pumps $1 $2 $3 to a file in /tmp


#!/bin/bash

echo $1 $2 $3 > /tmp/.lastsms
exit 0


when it tries to run it - this goes into the zabbix_server.log file

21830:20080912:190044 Unsupported media type [3] for alert ID [6411]

any ideas ?
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[xs-]

Did you check if the script is accessible and executable by the zabbix server user?

Besides that, the send-to field from from a user's media def is prepended to the message. So if you have a tel nr there, it would be $1

[loki]

are there any compile time options i need to make this work? or am i just better off waiting for zabbix 1.6 ?

[xs-]

No, just make sure that the media script is accessible and executable by the zabbix_server user.

[loki]

[root@gold named]# su - zabbix
[zabbix@gold ~]$ bin/sms.sh a b c
[zabbix@gold ~]$ cat /tmp/.lastsms
a b c
[zabbix@gold ~]$

[loki]

[zabbix@gold ~]$ cat /etc/zabbix_server.conf | egrep -v '^#|^$'
NodeID=0
StartPollers=5
ListenPort=10051
SenderFrequency=30
DebugLevel=3
Timeout=5
PidFile=/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid
LogFile=/tmp/zabbix_server.log
AlertScriptsPath=/home/zabbix/bin/
DBHost=127.0.0.1
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=xxxx
DBPassword=xxxx

[xs-]

Hmm

This might be farfetched but, try and lose the .sh extension (rename it to sms, and dont forget to change the script name in zabbix itself).

[loki]

just tried - no luck

any other suggestions ?

[loki]

so explain this one...

i edit zabbix_server.conf, change debug to 4... kill & restart zabbix_server
magically it works with debug 4 on .. wtf?

so i change it back to debug3, still works ?

either it took a restart of zabbix_server to pick up the change to sms from sms.sh or something weird happened..

oh well.. all good now.