Plugin development / presenting additional data.

[harald]

hello,

i am currently evaluating zabbix, if it's the right monitoring tool for me. i have had a look at the documentation but i am unable to find anything about if it's possible to write a plugin that can:

i would like to (besides all the other stuff, that i know zabbix can do) monitor a job queue. on the one hand i would like to monitor the standard things like availability of the queue and statistical information. on the other hand i would like to be able to view detailed information on what's going on in the queue.

therefore i would have to show a table in zabbix with information of each job currently in the queue. this would be tabular data coming "live" from the job queue, for example:

job-id, name of job, date the job was put in the queue, and possibly even more data ...

i think this goes beyond what's normally possible to show in the zabbix gui? is it possible for a monitoring plugin to present this enhanced data somewhere in the zabbix gui for example by rendering an own html template? is there any other possibility i could "implement" / "integrate" such "tool" in the zabbix gui?

thanks very much in advance!

harald

[Yello]

Hi,
I imagine you could do this by customizing the dashboard.


Regards,
David

[eskytthe]

Or make a screen
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...nd_slide_shows
... with eg. elements of your own URLs (pointing to your data details etc.)
BR
Erik

[nelsonab]

One idea would be to push the current status of the queue to zabbix as a log or character data type. Then in a screen you add a plain text element which would display the last N lines of Zabbix item associated with your queue status.