zabbix_sender error code

[ngarnier]

Hi,

When I send a value with zabbix_sender, I get a "0" error code (echo $?) when "failed" is 0 or 1, no difference.

How can I get the error code when I use zabbix_sender in a shell script with a for loop and 800 host ?

Thanks.

[Alexei]

When I send a value with zabbix_sender, I get a "0" error code (echo $?) when "failed" is 0 or 1, no difference.

How can I get the error code when I use zabbix_sender in a shell script with a for loop and 800 host ?

It seems you are using zabbix_sender in a highly inefficient way. The binary supports sending of multiple values from a file. In this case, only one execution of the sender is required.

I think that currently the sender always returns '0'.

[ngarnier]

It's not the problem, if I have 800 hosts in a file, how can I know if I have an error if zabbix_sender always ends with value 0 ?

Mostly in a shell script ?

Example :
[root@diane ~]# /opt/zabbix/sbin/zabbix_sender -i outage_snd.txt
sent: 488; failed: 7; total: 495
[root@diane ~]# echo $?
0

How can I know which "sent" has failed ?

No way to know if it's OK or not ?

[Alexei]

I understand. Well, the only way is to parse output of the sender, which is quite simple task.