Format of values in Zabbix sender

[jammann]

Hi all

I have a script which invokes zabbix_sender (1.6.4, Linux) sometimes with size/byte value that are (depending on the dimension) encoded as

1234
12k
1234k
13m

and so on. zabbix_sender fails, if the value is not a pure number (e.g. has 'k' or 'm' appended). I thought I could handle this by defining the Unit of the corresponding item, but I wasn't able to get it to work. I tried 'b' or 'B' for the Unit parameter.

For time being, I fixed it by re-converting the value to pure numbers in my shell script, but I thought there should be a way to send such value to Zabbix directly?

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

CU, Joe

[Alexei]

Zabbix accepts pure number only, it does not perform any conversion currently.

[jammann]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I'll just keep my script then.

CU, Joe