Increasing the 30sec client timeout

[sean]

Hi,

I have external scripts that zabbix runs on a remote zabbix client, that do a complex a sequence of events, logging on to a website and do several operations and logging out.
This often takes more than 30 secs, so the zabbix check fails.

The timeout cannot be increase to more that 30secs on the client, what can one do? (I wonder why the hard limit is so low?)

Web checks cannot be used in this case

I split the external script into 3 separate scripts which will each run in less than 30 secs. However, they must run in sequence, and I don't see how 3 items could be configured to run in sequence.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance..

[neogan]

zabbix sender

Hi,

I have external scripts that zabbix runs on a remote zabbix client, that do a complex a sequence of events, logging on to a website and do several operations and logging out.
This often takes more than 30 secs, so the zabbix check fails.

The timeout cannot be increase to more that 30secs on the client, what can one do? (I wonder why the hard limit is so low?)

Web checks cannot be used in this case

I split the external script into 3 separate scripts which will each run in less than 30 secs. However, they must run in sequence, and I don't see how 3 items could be configured to run in sequence.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance..

I suggest you need use trapper type items in end of you scripts send to server with zabbix_sender.

[sean]

Hmm, very nice. I'd not noticed that feature.

Excellent - thanks!