Powershell script why return a json object?

[Spamme]

Hello, I'm new to zabbix and I have to monitor an application on a windows server, therefore I need a powershell script. I was checking some examples in internet and some of them return a json object:

• https://ittrainingday.com/2015/01/05...rshell-script/
• https://stephenfritz.blogspot.ch/201...ndows-lld.html

But the "type of the information" in the zabbix item can be only:

• Numeric (unsigned)
• Numeric (float)
• Character
• Log
• Text

Why returning a json object if zabbix cannot handle them?
Do I miss something?

[Atsushi]

Perhaps, I think that the script that outputs the result in JSON is a script for low level discovery(LLD).
By using this function, you can monitor things that change the number of objects to be monitored depending on the status with one setting.

Manual:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/3.0/manual/discovery/low_level_discovery

[Spamme]

Uhm, it could be correct because one script lists the available drivers and the other one the services and their state. But aren't those discovery functions (most probably scripts) already available in Zabbix?
In any case this could be the reason, why those scripts return a json object and not a single value.