Discovery Rule. Get data from file

[A66aT]

Hello

I need to monitor connections state from one servers to another (check for monitoring is ready), the question is that each server, i nned to monitor may have connections to multiple other servers, so i need to create few tests from template. for one server it must bu one check, for qnother its need to be three tests.
I have a file with list of ip addresses, connections to which i need to monitor.
I wanted to do it with discovery rule. Read that file, get values and according to its number create checks. I made this discovery rule

Test discovery rule

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vfs.file.contents[/usr/etc/customfile.txt]

30s

Zabbix agent

Enabled

File /usr/etc/customfile.txt - is that file with ip addresses list. But i didn`t find how to receive data properly from that file. How can i do it?
Thank you

[leandro.s.teixeira]

Hello!

Do you find a solution?

[joelmeckert]

I'm running into the exact same issue here Devices are remote and on the public internet, and need to be (nmap) scanned to determine the services that need to be monitored. Nmap has XML output, and I was hoping to use the XML output in the LLD by converting it to s psobject then a JSON with PowerShell. I was considering creating a separate discovery rule for each type of service, provide a YAML template to a colleague, have them fill in the values (more than one address = array, multiple entries), and then have the upload it to the web server. PowerShell ConvertFrom-Yaml to PowerShell object, then convert the PowerShell object to JSON. I had been doing this with host macros, but as things scale, it makes it more difficult to manage.
It would also be possible via the API, PowerShell, it issues the HTTP POST request, grabs all of the hosts, and then prompts the staff member to press a number that coincides with their target host, ConvertFrom-Json to psobject, and then ConvertTo-Yaml. The file could be uploaded to the Zabbix server via WinSCP, into a specific folder that only Zabbix could access, or a completely new Apache virtualhost that only allows connections from the Zabbix server itself. Perhaps PowerShell could split the object into multiple files for the upload, depending on the service type being monitored.
Perhaps that makes it way way more complicated than it needs to be, but I'm of the mindset that systems should be code and not random mouseclicks, and should be tested and done once right.

[cyber]

Hello

I need to monitor connections state from one servers to another (check for monitoring is ready), the question is that each server, i nned to monitor may have connections to multiple other servers, so i need to create few tests from template. for one server it must bu one check, for qnother its need to be three tests.
I have a file with list of ip addresses, connections to which i need to monitor.
I wanted to do it with discovery rule. Read that file, get values and according to its number create checks. I made this discovery rule

Test discovery rule

Item prototypes

Trigger prototypes

Graph prototypes

Host prototypes

vfs.file.contents[/usr/etc/customfile.txt]

30s

Zabbix agent

Enabled

File /usr/etc/customfile.txt - is that file with ip addresses list. But i didn`t find how to receive data properly from that file. How can i do it?
Thank you

Discovery needs LLD macros to work. it expects json input. So either you provide your customfile.txt already in json format, so you can point LLD macro to certain json path. Or you add somekind of JS preprocessing, which takes your IP list and formats it as json and then you point your LLD macros to needed json path.