http requests by zabbix_server possible ?

[Arthur]

Is there a way to use the zabbix_server to request a webpage and use the result page, grep a value and handle it as a Item ?

I have to monitor the nof rows found in a query,
I can do the query and retur the result using the webserver on the host

any idee ?

[cptnzod]

User userParameter in zabbix_agentd.conf:
UserParameter=runtime1.test,/usr/local/bin/server-status.sh runtime1
runtime1.test is just a name
/usr/local/bin/... is the script
runtime1 is the hostname that I pass to this script.

Here is my script:
/usr/bin/wget -t 1 --delete-after http://$1.mydomain.com/server-status 2>&1 | grep "200 OK" > /dev/null
if [ $? -gt 0 ];then
echo 0
exit 1
else
echo 1
exit 0
fi

Then I can make a trigger based on runtime1.test and if I get a 1 I am okay otherwise trigger and alert me.

You can use wget to get your custom query and parse the result the way you want it.

[Alexei]

Note that starting from 1.3.3 ZABBIX will support advanced monitoring of WEB applications. The functionality is already implemented.

[cptnzod]

I tried the 1.3.2 beta on CentOS 4 and did not get anywhere. Support was not good on that either. So I just went to the older release and that installed just fine

[Arthur]

Up and running now

Thx cptnzod,

I saw the script in a other tread, and did the same setup.
It first did not work aldo i followed the 1.1.3 (beta) docs
and zabbix_agentd -t blabla did work correct.
It returnd [t|38] .. i expected the 38 but could not find
any docs on the [t|..] but if it show's this, then zabbix can read the
value into its "Item"

I used localhost / 127.0.0.1 as destination host
Some one on (freenode) #zabbix adviced to test with zabbix_get
This gave me some verbose messages about refuse to connect etc.

Then i found in the zabbix_agentd.conf a setting to make the agentd
listen on this nic.

rgds
/Arthur