Zabbix sender protocol

[fisher]

Dear All,

I plan to use the Zabbix sender protocol in my scripts because not all of my machines are have Z client installed and I do not want to depend on it. To see if I clearly understand how it is works I just did telnet to my zabbix server and copy-pasted the documentation example. Surprisingly I got an OK (I believe because the xml fragment was correct), but the data I posted did not appeared in the latest data screen. Most probably because the test data host, "Sonic server" is not configured on my server.

Questions:

- is the data I posted from a non-existing host in the db?
- is the data I posted for a non-existing key in the db?
- if the data in the db, then it is maintained by the internal mechanisms, so is it purged after the configured time, even if the host and/or the key is not exists?
- if I want to get this data do I have to create all the hosts (yes, I think)
- do I have to create all the keys the client posts? (yes, I think)
- if the data in the db will it available when I create the host/key at a later time?
- Is there any way to automate the host/key creation from command line?

[alixen]

Hi,

- is the data I posted from a non-existing host in the db?

No, zabbix_server will discard any data received from an unknown host.

- is the data I posted for a non-existing key in the db?

No, zabbix_server will discard any data received for an unknown key.

- if the data in the db, then it is maintained by the internal mechanisms, so is it purged after the configured time, even if the host and/or the key is not exists?

Data is not in the DB see above.

- if I want to get this data do I have to create all the hosts (yes, I think)
- do I have to create all the keys the client posts? (yes, I think)

Yes to both questions.

- if the data in the db will it available when I create the host/key at a later time?

No, data is not in the DB.

- Is there any way to automate the host/key creation from command line?

You may look at Zabbix API http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/api
You may also search the forum, some command line tools have been discussed here (ex: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthre...ghlight=zabcon)

You may also look at auto-registration feature (new in 1.8) it may help you automatically create a new host.

Regards,
Alixen

[fisher]

Cool, thank you for your help!

[fisher]

Its workiiiingggg

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