Correct syntax not accepted

[aternopae]

I am using Zabbix 1.4.1 on a Debian Sarge, I installed it from the official repository and everything went ok.
I am monitoring a lot of servers and I would like to create a template do add the Lotus Domino TCP port to be monitored passively.

So I added a new item naming it Lotus Domino TCP Port, then in the key i entered tcp,1352 which seems to be the correct syntax (I would like to monitor the TCP 1352 port).

When trying to save I receive this message from the frontend:

Incorrect key format 'key_name[param1,param2,...]'

Which is of course not true: I tried to insert the correct key value directly in the mysql table and the result is that it starts to monitor the service.

The problem I find is that when in a second step I create a trigger selecting the previuos item created by hand on the database I obtain almost the same error: Incorrect trigger expression. [{hostname:tcp,1352.last ... }=0]

I think that there may be a serious bug in the input control that doesn't permit to introduce some good syntax and I really can't realize how to solve this issue. This of course discourages me to use Zabbix in a production stable environment.

Has someone faced the same problem?

[jean]

Me too I have this problem with the same item and the zabbix 1.4.1 server...

[treyh]

Similiar Problem

When I was creating an item for snmp polling, it wouldn't let me use this as a key:

TRANZEO-MIB::rssi

So I modified items.inc.php

The following is in there twice, so I commented it out and it works.

#if( !eregi('^'.ZBX_EREG_ITEM_KEY_FORMAT.'$', $key) )
#{
# error("Incorrect key format 'key_name[param1,param2,...]'");
# return false;
#}

[Alexei]

This is a known issue which is already fixed in pre 1.4.2.