Macro expander functionality

[limo]

Hi to all,

it was discused before, but I think it would be very useable to expand macros from commandline. We use our patch of old zabbix_server because we beed it.

I think it could be implemented inside zabbix_server process protocol?

It means we need some commandline which will process stdin , find macros inside and expand them all on stdout. Or similar functionality with commandline..

zabbix_expand [-e eventid] [-t triggerid] [-h hostid] [-m macro]
will expand macros specific to eventid, triggerid or hostid. If -m is used on commandline, process only string from commandline and exit. If not, process stdin and return values on stdout.

Example1:
This example will return values on stdout. We use eventid 1000 to focus on.

zabbix_expand -e 1000 <<EOF
{HOSTNAME} ({PROFILE.LOCATION}),
Now: {DATE}-{TIME},
Event: {EVENT.DATE}-{EVENT.TIME},
Age: {EVENT.AGE}
EOF

Example2:
This example will return values on stdout. We use hosttid 1000 to focus on.

zabbix_expand -h 1000 <<EOF
{HOSTNAME} ({PROFILE.LOCATION}),
Now: {DATE}-{TIME},
CPU load: {hostname.cpu.load.last(0)}
EOF

Example3:
This example will return values on stdout. We do not focus so we can expand only full name macros, not trigger or host specific.

zabbix_expand <<EOF
Now: {DATE}-{TIME},
CPU load: {hostname.cpu.load.last(0)}
EOF

Example4:
We expand only commandline string

zabbix_expand -m '{hostname.cpu.load.last(0)}'

Thanx !

[nelsonab]

I agree I think such capability would be great and I think it would be best done as a tie into an API.