Parameters in external check - ignored?

[kormik]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup an external check that we used to use with Nagios. It requires few parameters, so I configured it as an external check with key script_name[-X parameterX, -Y parameterY, -Z parameterZ]. Unfortunatelly the scripts returns with error - parameter missing. Why is it so? Is there any mistake in what i set up? I tried many variations of the above and it seems like everything in the brackets is just ignored... I use 1.6.6 version of Zabbix.
Up to this moment I was delighted to see how easy it is to configure Zabbix

Thank You in advance for any suggestions.

[richlv]

zabbix passes host ip as the first parameter to external tests and item key parameters after that. so $1 would be host ip, $2 and forward would be whatever you passed to the item.
you can see what zabbix passes by outputting "$@" to a temporary file in the script while testing.

[NOB]

zabbix passes host ip as the first parameter to external tests and item key parameters after that. so $1 would be host ip, $2 and forward would be whatever you passed to the item.
you can see what zabbix passes by outputting "$@" to a temporary file in the script while testing.

As far as I know (in 1.4.x), the contents of parameter 1 depends on the setting
in the PHP frontend.
If you configured the host to use IP-address for access, it will be the
IP address, if you configure the host to use DNS-Name, it will be
the DNS-Name of the host shown in the frontend.

Has that changed in 1.6.x ?

To the original poster: Remove the commas from the parameter list if you don't want to parse the command line.

Regards

Norbert.

[richlv]

As far as I know (in 1.4.x), the contents of parameter 1 depends on the setting
in the PHP frontend.
If you configured the host to use IP-address for access, it will be the IP address, if you configure the host to use DNS-Name, it will be the DNS-Name of the host shown in the frontend.

Has that changed in 1.6.x ?

good point. no, it has not changed - i'm just always dealing with ip adresses, so i tend to forget about places where hostname can appear instead

[psad]

A pitty, the documentatin in section "11 External checks" does not tell anything about this fact. The example there is wrong: example script will be executed as follows:
check_oracle.sh "[HOSTIP]" "-h" "192.168.1.4"

[richlv]

2.0 + documentation pages updated to reflect the possibility to use dns name from host properties. 1.8 page left as is - 1.8 has a hardcoded first parameter that later versions do not have