Add several items with different parameters

[guardian_de]

Hi,

I'm a complete newbie so please bear with me...

I have to monitor the validity of certificates of a number of external services (web, mail, IMAP, ...). I use user parameters of my agents for that:

UserParameter=ssl_cert_check_valid[*], /custom/zabbix/bin/ssl_cert_check.sh valid "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"
UserParameter=ssl_cert_check_expire[*], /custom/zabbix/bin/ssl_cert_check.sh expire "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"

I can associate the user parameter query with an item and a trigger to monitor the certificates and alarm me as needed. But I don't want to do the exercise of creating an item and a trigger for each service that I have to monitor.

What would be the best way to create the item and trigger for each service just by specifying the hostname?

[guardian_de]

To answer my own question - low-level discovery is the way to go. https://blog.zabbix.com/a-journey-of-discovery/11444/