Developers help needed: zabbix_sender.c modification in order to accept timestamp
Hi All!
I need to store data to Zabbix using zabbix_sender (which reads data from file).
But additionally I need to store data with specified timestamp.
Investigating the sources (v.1.4.4 (running on my site)) i supposed that it should be possible. For that i need to pass timestamp as parameter to invocation of comms_create_request() instead of NULL:
tosend = comms_create_request(sentdval_args->hostname, sentdval_args->key, sentdval_args->key_value,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
I didn't find any docs describing the sources. I'm not quite familiar with C and that is why reverse engineering of code is a big pain for me
If anybody can answer some of my questions or correct me if i'm wrong, i would really appreciate it.
1. Is it possible at all to store data with specified timestamp using zabbix_sender?
2. Function comms_create_request() (src/libs/zbxcommon/comms.c) accepts following parameters:
long *lastlogsize,
unsigned long *timestamp,
const char *source,
unsigned short *severity
2a: How can get value for "lastlogsize" in zabbix_sender.c to pass it as parameter?
2b: What format of timestamp is required ?
2c: What should be passed as "source" ?
2d: What should be passed as "severity" ?
Thank you.
I need to store data to Zabbix using zabbix_sender (which reads data from file).
But additionally I need to store data with specified timestamp.
Investigating the sources (v.1.4.4 (running on my site)) i supposed that it should be possible. For that i need to pass timestamp as parameter to invocation of comms_create_request() instead of NULL:
tosend = comms_create_request(sentdval_args->hostname, sentdval_args->key, sentdval_args->key_value,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
I didn't find any docs describing the sources. I'm not quite familiar with C and that is why reverse engineering of code is a big pain for me
If anybody can answer some of my questions or correct me if i'm wrong, i would really appreciate it.1. Is it possible at all to store data with specified timestamp using zabbix_sender?
2. Function comms_create_request() (src/libs/zbxcommon/comms.c) accepts following parameters:
long *lastlogsize,
unsigned long *timestamp,
const char *source,
unsigned short *severity
2a: How can get value for "lastlogsize" in zabbix_sender.c to pass it as parameter?
2b: What format of timestamp is required ?
2c: What should be passed as "source" ?
2d: What should be passed as "severity" ?
Thank you.