Zabbix Custom Script Alerts

[ellio]

Hello,

I was following the web site guide on passing parameters to a custom script.

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.4/en/manual/config/notifications/media/script

The only ones I could get working are the three that clearly say they are for alert script parameters as defined below.

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/appendix/macros/supported_by_location

How can I pass things like IP address, Hostname, Event Severity, and Tags through to a custom script? Is there a guide somewhere I can look at to figure this out?

Any help at all would be appreciated. I was looking through old posts and I found something similar but I can't find the screen in reference on Zabbix 5.4, when I go to the Actions page the only thing I can specify is who to receive notifications and through which media. Am I missing something on this action page? I know this post is old and we are using Zabbix 5.4 so maybe what I'm looking for is somewhere else?

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-troubleshooting-and-problems/356730-script-parameters

[LenR]

I think you're looking for the message template tab, for example:

Problem started at {EVENT.TIME} on {EVENT.DATE}
Problem name: {EVENT.NAME}
Host: {HOST.NAME}
Severity: {EVENT.SEVERITY}
Operational data: {EVENT.OPDATA}
Original problem ID: {EVENT.ID}
{TRIGGER.URL}

[ellio]

Yes, I can pass the whole message or the whole subject with the {ALERT.MESSAGE} or the {ALERT.SUBJECT} and that part works without issue. I could customize those to just have {HOST.NAME} or {HOST.IP} or whatever, but for my use case I need to pass 4 separate variables to my script and correlate each to an OID. I would like a way to pass just the {HOST.NAME} variable from Zabbix to my custom alert script without having to use the {ALERT.MESSAGE}

[ellio]

If anyone else is curious I found a workaround, I just put in delimiters on the ALERT.MESSAGE put in what I needed for my OID's and used IFS to parse it in my custom script.