Get Integer value from a file
Hi,
I'm currently trying to get an integer value from a file. In my situation I have a file which contents nothing more as a number. The problem is that this value is always handled as a string and I didn't found a way to convert it into an integer value. Pre-Processing didn't gave me an option to covert or manipulate it.
Also I've searched through the board and the only ideas that I found was to create custom commands (simply cat the file). For me this is more a workaround as a real solution for the problem. I have multiple hosts where I need to read out such files and I don't really want to create a custom command on each host. Also I would have to repeat this step if the file location change or if i want to add an additional item.
Is there maybe now a solution for this problem as the threads that I've read through where pretty old (+5 years)? An other idea that I had was to manipulate the script which creates these files to use zabbix_sender. But the non existing security checks for zabbix_sender let me drop this idea.
I'm currently trying to get an integer value from a file. In my situation I have a file which contents nothing more as a number. The problem is that this value is always handled as a string and I didn't found a way to convert it into an integer value. Pre-Processing didn't gave me an option to covert or manipulate it.
Also I've searched through the board and the only ideas that I found was to create custom commands (simply cat the file). For me this is more a workaround as a real solution for the problem. I have multiple hosts where I need to read out such files and I don't really want to create a custom command on each host. Also I would have to repeat this step if the file location change or if i want to add an additional item.
Is there maybe now a solution for this problem as the threads that I've read through where pretty old (+5 years)? An other idea that I had was to manipulate the script which creates these files to use zabbix_sender. But the non existing security checks for zabbix_sender let me drop this idea.
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