Calling a local script

[phork]

Is there anyway to have an item call a script on the localhost and have the value of the return be used for a host's data?

[Calimero]

Zabbix Agent can use scripts/commands to collect data.

See "UserParameter" item in zabbix_agentd.conf

[phork]

Yea, I know that. But what I want to do is run scripts from the zabbix server host,not the monitored hosts.

I'm trying to run a script that takes a host as an argument, and runs a check on a db for that host. I want all of these db checks to be ran from a single script on the zabbix server host, but have the values be used for items on the monitored hosts.

i.e. do a search for records containing X for host remote-123 and then use that return value for an item on remote-123.

[Alexei]

This functionality will be supported in ZABBIX 1.4.

[phork]

Now that you mention it, is there any timeframe on 1.4? Also, will there be an upgrade path from 1.1.x -> 1.4?

[Alexei]

ZABBIX 1.4 is scheduled for February 2007. Yes, there will be clear upgrade path to 1.4.