Custom Timeline

[sradhakrishna]

Hi,

We are evaluating Zabbix as a potential candidate for monitoring our device parameters.

The device provides the parameters along with the exact time at which the measurement was made. I need the graphs in Zabbix to use the timeline as provided by the device, and not by when Zabbix queries the device.

Please help in configuring/ customizing Zabbix to achieve the above. Any help/ pointers will be extremely appreciated.

Regards,
Radha.

[zabbix_zen]

You can use zabbix_sender for this,


Eg:
After previously converting the device times to linux epoch time, and generating a metrics_file similar to,

test_host2 metric[successful] 1317150900 3626
test_host2 metric[total] 1317150900 3752

Call,

zbx_sender_path -z zbx_server_ip -p zbx_port --with-timestamps --input-file metrics_file

[Tractorboy]

Very interesting

I wasn;t aware from any documentation that you could use zabbix sender to send a file of metrics, let alone the format to enable you to send back history.

Does this eman I can run a command hourly and capture all activity in the hour and send it back in a single file, and the graph would show the events s they happened in that hour?

[zabbix_zen]

Yep.
You can have as much lines as you want in that file,
zabbix_sender will dispatch them sequentially in 250 batches.