ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED but it apparently should be

[Twirrim]

/etc/zabbix # ls -sltrah
total 20K
   0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   30 Apr  5 15:01 zabbix_agent.conf -> /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
7.5K drwxr-xr-x 102 root root 7.6K Aug 10 11:13 ..
 12K -rw-r--r--   1 root root 9.9K Sep 23 13:09 zabbix_agentd.conf
   0 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  128 Sep 23 13:09 .

That way (in theory) whatever zabbix_agentd can do, zabbix_agent can do, or so I'd expect.

/etc/zabbix # tail -2 /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf 
# Monitoring spam stats
UserParameter=spamassassin,/usr/local/bin/spam-count

So we call that using zabbix_agent:

/etc/zabbix # zabbix_agent -t spamassassin
spamassassin                                  [t|3059]

Yay, it works. Restart zabbix_agentd (just in case I've done it by stopping it, checking it had gone, then starting it again)

Then from the monitor box:

[zabbix@monitoringserver ~]$ zabbix_get -s targetserver -k spamassassin
ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED

Odd. Trying on the box itself, in case:

/etc/zabbix # zabbix_get -s localhost -k spamassassin
ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED

Colour me confused. If zabbix_agent can do it, why can't zabbix_agentd?

[danrog]

Just for kicks try spamassaian.count or spam[*] (and pass nothing) as your user parameter with the same command. The other thing is make sure the account running agentd has permissions to run that command.

[Twirrim]

Hmm.. that's weird. Checked permissions on all levels but can't quite see it. Must be something related to that though. Switched things around so the script that produces the result gets run in a cron and dumps it's output to a tmp file, and switched zabbix_agentd.conf to do a cat of that instead. Either way I get the result I need.