Change separator for UserParameter

[bast]

I want to send a key with parameters witch contains comma or space (JMX MBean for Tomcat), but these caracters are deleted by zabbix agent.
The use of " or ' not resolve the problem.
Can I do something like this :
Key : seb.test[Catalina:j2eeType=Servlet,name=admin.service.servi ce_jsp,WebModule=//localhost/admin,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none#process ingTime],separator=#
UserParameter=seb.test[*],/my/script.pl $1 $2

The zabbix agent use the separator parameter to distinct parameters ($1 and $2).

[Alexei]

You may use quotes:

key["param1","param2"]

[bast]

It is not correct.
My zabbix agent configuration :
UserParameter=seb.test[*],sudo /opt/zabbix/scripts/test.sh $1 $2 $3

This is the logs (zabbix-agent 1.1.4-10etch1 on Debian Etch) :
024142:20080919:113210 Connection from [a.b.c.d]. Allowed servers [S1,S2]
024142:20080919:113210 Before read()
024142:20080919:113210 After read() 2 [49]
024142:20080919:113210 Got line:seb.test["name=nom,type=TYPE","param2","param3"]
024142:20080919:113210 Run remote command [sudo /opt/zabbix/scripts/test.sh "name=nom type=TYPE" "param2"] Result [67] [ ....]

The comma is deleted and the $3 parameter is not transmit.

[nelsonab]

I have come across this too. There needs to be a way to "escape" the comma character. It is a narrow use case and one that can be worked around with the use of a wrapper to the main script, but that's a royal pain.

Also there needs to be a way to extend the environment for sub processes. If the command line for the sub-process aka script is too long it will be truncated. I have mentioned this before and I think even submitted a bug for it.

[nelsonab]

Can we bump up the priority?

Actually I reported this from the perspective of remote commands on July 18 as ZBX-403.

[Alexei]

For some reason I was pretty sure it is no longer the case in 1.6. It seem the problem still exists. To be fixed!

[Kees Jan Koster]

I want to send a key with parameters witch contains comma or space (JMX MBean for Tomcat), but these caracters are deleted by zabbix agent.
The use of " or ' not resolve the problem.
Can I do something like this :
Key : seb.test[Catalina:j2eeType=Servlet,name=admin.service.servi ce_jsp,WebModule=//localhost/admin,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=none#process ingTime],separator=#
UserParameter=seb.test[*],/my/script.pl $1 $2

The zabbix agent use the separator parameter to distinct parameters ($1 and $2).

Uhm. Have you considered using Zapcat? http://kjkoster.org/zapcat It solves this for you, and includes some nice templates to boot. Plus, it runs in the JVM and has much lower run-time impact than perl (no offense).

[bast]

Yes,
It is a great solution. But the problem is that the zapcat webapp must be a host, so when I have several tomcat instances, I must have several hosts for one physical server.

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear bast,

Yeah, I thought about that too. The way I see it, a JVM is just that, a virtual machine. Thus, it shows up as a machine in Zabbix. Compare it to the host/client relation of VMWare machines.

There are all sorts of nasty issues that come up when you have more than one JVM on an actual host and you pretend they are 'part of' a host.

Kees Jan

[bast]

My solution use a little perl script and Tomcat /manager/jmxproxy.

I have made 2 templates :

• one who deal with Java (cpu, memory, gc, threads, ...)
• one who deal with Tomcat (http/ajp connectors, sessions, ...)

I can send you the script and the templates if you want.

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Bast,

Yes, please. I am interested in your templates. Please mail them to [email protected].

Thanks.

Kees Jan

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Bast,

I almost forgot: if you use Tomcat manager, please read this warning. :-)

Kees Jan

[Sasha]

UserParameter

Thank you!
The problem is fixed in version 1.6.x rev. 6169.

[bast]

Thanks sacha !!
For the previous port from Kees Jan Poster :
Users can't access Tomcat Manager : it is behind a reverse proxy, and I use a firewall, and the RemoteAddrValve. I am working on Hibernate. I send you my results as soon as possible.
Have a nice day.

[nelsonab]

Thank you!
The problem is fixed in version 1.6.x rev. 6169.

I saw the ticket closed email, but how has the problem been resolved? Do we use a "\" character or is there another character we use to escape the "," character? Or do we even need to escape it at all?