Cetrificat check

[Dave_sutfene]

Hello all,

i am a newbe at zabbix (v2.0.8). and read already many items for checking the expiring date of a certificate.

i made the folowing script "email.sh" on the server:

ssl-cert-check -s email.sutfene.nl -p 443 -n | sed 's/ */ /g' | cut -f2 -d=
it is placed in /var/lib/zabbix/bin and user zabbix can run it. it returns a value let's say 500 which is in days.

it is based on the post of Alixen https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15694

in zabbix frontend i made an item based on a host??? as attached
but it doesnt display any results. What am i doing wrong.

[man]

check this links:

http://www.aperto.fr/cms/en/blog/15-blog-en/15-ssl-certificate-expiration-monitoring-with-zabbix.html

https://www.zabbix.org/wiki/Docs/howto/ssl_certificate_check

[Dave_sutfene]

installed it, but ill get the error:
"items.error: Received value [] is not suitable for value type [Numeric (float)]"

When i run the script (which is in /var/lib/zabbix/bin) on the server as user zabbix with the parameters i get the correct values.

i think it could be 2 things.

1. Zabbix can somehow not run the program, or receive the value.
--> so i gave zext.... a chmod +x and set zabbix as owner, but it didnt solve it

2. I did not create a correct item
--> i created an item with a DNS name of the server put in as SNMP and as agent. see attached image

i am using zabbix 2.0.8

[man]

1. Zabbix can somehow not run the program, or receive the value.
--> so i gave zext.... a chmod +x and set zabbix as owner, but it didnt solve it

from link in previous post:

zext_ssl_cert.sh must be installed in Zabbix external scripts directory (/etc/zabbix/externalscripts by default).

in zabbix_server.conf you can configure location of external scripts. put there zext_ssl_cert.sh and give executable permissions for user who runs zabbix-server

2. I did not create a correct item
--> i created an item with a DNS name of the server put in as SNMP and as agent. see attached image

you can remove snmp interface from host configuration it's not needed.
certificate check is not SNMP trap type, it's an external check type and key is

zext_ssl_cert.sh[{HOST.CONN},{$SSL_PORT}]

with this key zabbix-server will check certificate on that host where you have linked your template

[Dave_sutfene]

okey, did a new clean installation of zabbix 2.2.0 on ubuntu this time

but i still get the error
" Received value [] is not suitable for value type [Numeric (float)]"

as mentioned zabbix is owner of the file, in the terminal shell the zext can be run and gives a "530" as value.

i recreated an item with the hostname as DNS in the agent field with port "443"