Zabbix 1.8 SMS alerts

[simon_joerg]

Hi

I have been testing zabbix for the last coupple of days and must say im impressed by the ease of use, and configuration.

However i have run into a issue that i cant seem to solve.
One of the requirements for my company is that to have automated sms alerting.
Due to this we on our old monitoring enviroment had a clickatell account which i would like to use for this purpose.

After digging around in the forums and wiki i have come to a issue i cannot figure out how to solve.

The setup is as follows:

I have a python script on the server that hosts Zabbix.
A action has been setup to send both email and sms message on any alert comming up.
I know this works as the email is sent.

The script looks like this

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib
import sys

#A non-overly complicated python interface to Clickatells.com's HTTP api.
#Import into python, or use as shell script. Be sure to edit the default
#parameters in the send function below

def send(text, to = "{empty}", send_as = "{number to send from}", user = "{user id of my clickatell acc}", password = "{pass of my clickatell acc}", api_id = "{API id of clickatell acc}"):
url = "http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg"
config = {}
config['user'] = user
config['password'] = password
config['api_id'] = api_id
config['from'] = send_as
config['to'] = to
config['text'] = text

query = urllib.urlencode(config)
file = urllib.urlopen(url, query)

output = file.read()

file.close()

return output

if __name__ == '__main__':
argc = len(sys.argv)

# first argument is the text message
if argc == 2:
print send(sys.argv[2])
# arguments are a phone number followed by text
elif argc == 3:
print send(sys.argv[2], sys.argv[1])
else:
print 'Usage: sms.py [phone number] "Text message"'

If i manually use the script it works
For example:
./sms.py 12345678 "test"

I have created a new media type and defined it as a script and pointed it to the sms.py script.
The alert.d is defined in the zabbix_server.cfg file aswell.
I have also added the media type to my account.

When i generate a alarm i get a email.
And if i check the /var/log/zabbix-server/zabbix-server
i can see a entry saying "Usage: sms.py [phone number] "Text message""
Which is from the script if its run without any variables.

So my guess is the script works - the action works, but the media type is not passing the correct variables.

How can i make the script pass the phone number taken from my account and the message from the action ?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Simon Jorgensen

[Rudd]

Hi,

I am not sure if it is the best way, but I have implemented that by configuring an Action with remote commands.

Configuration -> Actions -> Create Action -> Action Operations -> New -> Operation type = Remote command.

The remote command would look something like this:

zabserver.mydomain.com:/usr/local/zabbix/bin/sms.py 61412345678 "{TRIGGER.NAME}: {ITEM.LASTVALUE}"

hth,