UserParameter help

[mozzi]

Heya all

I adressed this in another thread but I am really having a problem here.
@ the bottom of zabbix_agentd.conf and zabbix_agent.conf you see this
#UserParameter=mysql.ping,mysqladmin -uroot ping|grep alive|wc -l
as 1 of the checks.

If I enable this how do I get to the data?
I want to put my own stuff in there and I can't find much in the documentation on this.

Mozzi

[gryphius]

Create an item for that host in your zabbix gui with the same key same as in the zabbix_agentd.conf, make sure you choose the correct datatype. Then you should be able to see the data.

[mozzi]

UserParameter

Heya

Still no luck.
I have this in my agentd.conf.
UserParameter=barracuda.latency,/usr/bin/curl -s http://192.168.69.25:8000/cgi-bin/stats.cgi | egrep -e "latency" | sed s/[^0-9]//g

Running it manually as user root and user zabbix gives me the correct answer.
root@mozzi:/etc/zabbix# zabbix_agentd -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf -t barracuda.latency
barracuda.latency [t|2]

Yet going to latest data the graph shows me [no data].
I created the item for my host with the key barracuda.latency and type of information Numeric (integer 64bit).
When I klick on the select button for key, it doesn't show up there.
I used zabbix agent as type.

I don't see anything in the logs either.

Mozzi

[gryphius]

When I klick on the select button for key, it doesn't show up there.

I think that's normal. The UserParameters don't show up in the popup, just write them in manually.

What does

zabbix_get -s<ip of your agent> -k barracuda.latency

return? (When you run it from the zabbix server)

If this returns ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED, then something wrong on the agent side, try setting the agent logs to debug level to find out.

If this returns a value then it's a problem in the gui configuration (wrong key, wrong datatype, item disabled on that particular host, ...)

[mozzi]

zabbix_get

Heya dude

zabbix@mozzi:~$ /usr/sbin/zabbix_get -s127.0.0.1 -k barracuda.latency
3
zabbix@mozzi:~$

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!
So it seems to be my problem.
Okay I'll look again

Mozzi

[gryphius]

Go to the configuration->items tab, select the host(not the template!), then check what the barracuda item displays. Sometimes those items get disabled while playing around(because the agend returns ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED for any reason) and then not enabled automatically when you fixed your errors.

[mozzi]

[Solved] UserParameter

Okay

The trick is to not create the item for the remote host but the host you are running the UserParameter on! In this case the zabbix server.
This will solve your problem, logical actually, but took me a couple of days :-)

Mozzi