how to use Alias in zabbix_agentd.conf ?

[xuxf]

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_agentd

refering to the doc above,I set an Alias in zabbix_agentd.conf,
for example,
Alias=zbxhome:/home/monitor/zabbix

but how to use it ? Does any body use alias in conf ?
Please show me an example.

[xuxf]

please tell me how to do if you know it.

[ghoz]

read the manual once more.

the alias mecanism let you create a new key that will alias another one.

on zabbix server you create an item 'yourkey'
on the agent config add an Alias=yourkey:realkey

with realkey one of the numerous things you can monitor on the agent.

I'm using it on windows agents only,

• to track ethernet items, that way my graphs/ triggers reference eth0 and eth1 just like under linux, and i dont have to change my items for every ethernet card on windows (you have to use the real name of the card or the IP)
• to track perf counters on different versions of windows (they have a bad tendency of changing translations between versions)

I dont know what you were trying to monitor,
you can use agent internal checks without changing anything in your configuration ,
and if you want to add custom items, you have to look at userparameters to run scripts on your monitored host.

good luck, and good reading

[xuxf]

Thank you, ghoz.
I understand the usage now.

By the way, Is there a way to configure relative path in zabbix_agentd.conf ?
For example,
my config file path is /home/monitor/zabbix/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf, in this zabbix_agentd.conf, I defined
PidFile=/home/monitor/zabbix/run/zabbix_agentd.pid
LogFile=/home/monitor/zabbix/log/zabbix_agentd.log
I find that ,I must put these config item in full path.
Can I just configure like this : PidFile=$HOME/zabbix/run/zabbix_agentd.pid ?

And I include a config file in zabbix_agentd.conf,
"Include=/home/monitor/zabbix/conf/zabbix_agentd.userparams.conf" works, but "Include=zabbix_agentd.userparams.conf" does not work.

And if I use UserParameters ,
UserParameter=db2.tablespace[*],db2tablespace.sh "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"
db2tablespace.sh must in $PATH,or I should write it in full path,like
UserParameter=db2.tablespace[*],/home/monitor/zabbix/bin/db2tablespace.sh "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"
If I don't want to set /home/monitor/zabbix/bin in PATH, is there a way to solve this better ? for example:
UserParameter=db2.tablespace[*],$AGENTHOME/bin/db2tablespace.sh "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"

I don't know whether I express it clearly,
thank you very much.

[ghoz]

full path for the configs, no shortcut that I know of...

for user parameters, as you guessed, if not in zabbix agent's $PATH, you have to put the full path...