Clickatell, Zabbix and Media Type

[ittec]

Hi again

one of my last adventures with Zabbix is the alerts by SMS. I know there are some info on forum and wiki. I have tested all ways. Only script that worked for my was using smssend binary and Clickatell SMS Gateway service.

I can tell that my service is working currently, almost, when I have executed it on console.

But...unfortuneatly for me, don't work when Zabbix call script. I have followed the steps to make a script:

1. On zabbix_server.conf I have:

# Location for custom alert scripts
AlertScriptsPath=/home/zabbix/bin

2. I have created the script:

-bash-3.2# ls -ls /home/zabbix/bin/
total 28
4 -rwxrwxrwx 1 zabbix zabbix 484 Jun  4 15:55 sms.sh

3. cat /home/zabbix/bin/sms.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Script to send SMS messages from Zabbix
# $1 is the phone number, $2 is the subject and $3 is the message
# \0A is a hexadecimal code that gives a CR to your cell phone message

/usr/local/bin/smssend clickatell.sms USER PASSWORD API_ID API_NAME $1 "$2\0A\0A$3"

4. I have created a new Media Type and the action on one host, when a trigger has a problem, action send a message to Admin. One is the SMS. ... but

5. On Zabbix_server.log I have noticed the next error:

5548:20090604:165807 Error executing [/home/zabbix/bin/sms.sh] [Permission denied]

6. /home/zabbix/bin is owned by zabbix user and has 777 on every level....

7. When I run script on console, it works! So I have to get Zabbix run sms.sh without no errors to get sms send to users.

One more time, every help will be great
Thanks!

PS:

8. I check the script on other way and it also works

-bash-3.2# sms.sh NUMBER_OF_CELL hello hello

[Calimero]

7. When I run script on console, it works! So I have to get Zabbix run sms.sh without no errors to get sms send to users.

Did you run it as zabbix (su - zabbix ; ~/bin/sms.sh) ?

[ittec]

Interesting

Hi Calimero

maybe I have forgot something because when I test your suggest:

-bash-3.2# su - zabbix
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/zabbix: Permission denied
-bash: /home/zabbix/.bash_profile: Permission denied

Im not sure but it not seems to be the perfect message

Zabbix user:

cat /etc/passwd
zabbix:x:500:500::/home/zabbix:/bin/bash

Home Zabbix user:

-bash-3.2$ ls -ls /home/
total 4
4 drw-rw-rw- 3 zabbix zabbix 4096 Mar 13 12:09 zabbix

Is it right?

[Calimero]

chown -R zabbix:zabbix /home/zabbix
chmod 0755 /home/zabbix /home/zabbix/bin /home/zabbix/bin/sms.php

[ittec]

Thanks!

Thanks Calimero

the problem was in permissions on /home/zabbix/bin

Last week finally I got SMS messages from Zabbix

Best regards,

Ittec