How to execute a command as a part of an item?

[steve.enoch]

I need to be able to kick off a process/command on a monitored host using zabbix, but it looks like zabbix only lets you do this using external checks which only kicks off a script on the server not on the host. I have seen that zabbix allows for you to kick execute a command on the host in a step, when a trigger is fired. It seems that I should be able to do this in an item as well.

Is there a way to do this that I am missing or is there a standard work-around for this scenario?

Thanks,
Steve

[JBo]

Hi,

If you have zabbix agent on that host, you can use custom parameters to run a script to get an item value.
Check the documentation for details.

Regards,
JBo

[steve.enoch]

Thanks JBo, this looks like what I was looking for!

[trikke]

Assuming u have the agent on the host, you can as well use then system.run[<your command here>] key. You msut enable EnableRemoteCommands=1 in the agent configuration file, though!

Greets
Patrick