items questions(units and multipliers)

[jcedrun]

Hello,

Can anybody explain what are the units and the Use Multiplier for in the configuration items option?. Or tell me where I could investigate them?
Because I did not find them in the documentation, for the moment.

Thanks in advance

[Nate Bell]

The units are for indicating to Zabbix what type of data an Item is storing. So, for an Item that records diskspace, you might use somethine like B for a unit. This way, the data will be automatically stored as B, MB, or GB. I've found this varies depending on the Item, and sometimes I'll end up with an Item measured in Bytes that would make more sense being measured in MB, or GB.

This is where the multiplier comes in handy. If you choose the option to use it, you can enter a multiplier that will be applied to the data, and the results will be what Zabbix reports. For instance, my diskfree items use the unit B and the multiplier 1000 and their results get displayed in GB. Hope that helps,

Nate

[jcedrun]

THX, very much. Perfect!!

THX, very much. Perfect explanation, now it comes completely clear for me thx a million.

[nihilist]

If it is measured in bytes, and you use a 1000 multiplier, then wouldn't it be measure it in kb? Or am I missing something?

[Nate Bell]

The data being recieved was already being measured in kbs. I think by telling Zabbix the data was to be measured in bytes, and multiplying by 1000, Zabbix was able to interpret the data in kbs. However, since the numbers were large enough, I think Zabbix automatically converted the data to MB or GB. That's my guess at least. I think I came to those values through trial and error, but this explaination sounds pretty good to me. Sorry for the confusion.

Nate

[bbrendon]

This still seems to be an area of confusions. In a changelog, I see:

added support for units (Mb, Kb, Gb, etc)

But putting Kb to a value that is collected in Kb, displays KKB.

This units feature really makes no sense. The only way I've gotten it to work is make the units Bytes and then mutlply K * 1024

[Alexei]

Don't put M, K or G! Unit string is not supposed to have it. Use b,bps, B, whatever. If you receive data in KB use units B and multiplier 1024.

[bbrendon]

My first thought is that the word units should be changed to label.

That might make more sense to me. Hmmm

[erisan500]

Don't think so:


Label/Item = Free Disk Space
Value = 9
Unit = GB



Hope this clears it up.

EriSan

[Balaraju]

Not able to create a item for received data

Hi Team

I have used userparameter to get the result from zabbix agent. For this i have create an item to create a trigger. I have create a item but when i am creating the item the below error is showing.

Received value [1.15G] is not suitable for value type [Numeric (float)]

What is have Received value 1.15G thats extact value what i except from zabbix agent. now i am not able to create a team for this. Can you help on this.

[Sunrise0318]

Hy all.

Sorry my engilsh is very bad.

I send data to zabbix in Mb. (Oracle ASM disk space size). How to write value untils in Byte. I preprocess item 1024 * 1024 but item write "item too small or too long. My item type numeric(float).

[DrunkSkeeterPilot]

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Hi,
I cannot find anywhere in documentation where all possible/valid Units types are listed.
Why is this?

[cyber]

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Hi,
I cannot find anywhere in documentation where all possible/valid Units types are listed.
Why is this?

Because you can use whatever as units... If you count chickens, then you can add "chickens" in unit field and that's how it will be shown.

[dimir]

Do you mean https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...endix/suffixes ?

[gonzalezcantarell]

Hi everyone, actually use the version 6.0.4 however when configure an item the value isn´t correct,appear the unit only bps, whn I tried to change to other exem Mbps,M,MBPS, etc the value doesn´t change maintaining the same value to KMbps or only bps.Why is this?