zabbix_sender explained please

[dcrandall]

Hi,

Like many things in zabbix, use of zabbix_sender is talked about alot, but nowhere in the documentation is it actually explained how to use it. (Or if it is, it's hidden somwhere obscure)
I've read a lot of posts for various versions of zabbix, some say use zabbix_sender with zabbix_trapperd (which is also not explained well), others don't mention trapperd at all and just say "send your information to your server."

I understand that you use a script (or some method of gathering the information and present this to zabbix_sender, but how do you set up the interaction with the server?
What is the comand line syntax for zabbix_sender?
What do you need to do on the server side to get the information into an Item?

A detailed description with an example would be great.

Thanks,
Daniel

[safl]

Here's a bit more info to go on:

Configure an item of type trapper, with a key name of your choice ex. "temperature".

In order to send data with zabbix_sender execute it like:

# zabbix_sender <Zabbix server> <port> <server> <key> <value>
ex.
# zabbix_sender zabbix.example.com 10051 srv-main.file temperature 25

Where zabbix.example.com is your zabbix server running on port 10051 monitoring box which is configured with name "srv-main.file", the value which goes into monitoring is 25.

I think that never version can send data in a file, haven't tried it yet...

Does it make sense?

[vlturner]

It is more like this ,and this is from working scripts

Here is the line as it is executed, and here is the lines from the perl code.


/usr/local/bin/zabbix_sender -z localhost -p 10051 -s localhost -k nfsstat.MacOS.srvr.cache.Non-idem -o 0


$cmd = "/usr/local/bin/zabbix_sender -z $opts{mon} -p 10051 -s $opts{svr} -k nfsstat.MacOS.srvr.rpc.";
print "$cmd$fields[$field] -o $values[$field]\n";
$rc = system("$cmd$fields[$field] -o $values[$field]\n");

[frankymryao]

I think zabbix_get and zabbix_sender is just for testing the connection between server and agent and for testing whether a item works or not. After using a zabbix_sender, the result doesn't insert into the date base and won't refresh the web where shows it.

[bcarpio]

Not true

zabbix_sender is not just for testing connectivity I have added zabbix_sender into multiple scripts to update records which reflect in the gui.

[eskytthe]

Man page with exsamples:
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_sender
Remember to set the item as "zabbix trapper" type at the zabbix server.
Debug output with "-vv" option.

[wdingus]

Skip a lot of the command-line parameters if those values are defined in the configuration file.

zabbix_sender -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -k {key.name}

For instance...