item with script i wrote not supported

[bennethos]

Hi guys,

I have a script that contains the following :

#!/bin/bash

ping -s 1000 -c 1 213.49.18.85 | grep icmp | awk '{ print $7}' | sed -e 's/time=//g'

it gives an output like this :

28.6
----------
when i check my zabbix_server.log :
006433:20060215:104705 Active parameter [lat.test] is not supported by agent on host [mariko.gigaspeeds.be]
006433:20060215:104705 Type of received value [ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED] is not sutable for [[email protected]]

Permissions of my script are ok

zabbix@mariko:~$ ls -la ping_1500.sh
-rwx--x--x 1 zabbix zabbix 137 Feb 15 10:45 ping_1500.sh

any ideas' ??? I really need this script

also tried with fping and a grep and sed to get the number only, but i get same result... all my other scripts work fine

[cameronsto]

Run the zabbix agent with the '-p' argument. This will print out the results of most built-in items it supports and also will run all the UserParameter items you have setup. Check the output of your user item and make sure it looks good. You may have to remove any leading or trailing spaces if they are there. You can do this by piping the output to sed:

sed 's/ //g'

-cameron

[bennethos]

zabbix_agentd -p | grep ping
ping.test [s|93.2]

I still get the msg that zabbix does not support it...

Ive configged it as a "float", "store as is", refresh 10s

Also added the sed line to remove white spaces...

weird thing is, if i execute the script in my shell with >> ping.log to it, and i make :
UserParameter=ping.echo,cat /home/zabbix/ping.log

it works ! as a charachter and as a float...

Could it be my script is not replying within the 0.5ms as indicated in the manual ??

Its rather stupid writing a crontab that pings a host each 5 minutes, logging it in a file and writing a script for zabbix that echo's the log value dont you think so ?

thx for your promt reply !

[Alexei]

Are you sure your scipt is able to find all external commands (ping, awk, whatever) without proper environment (PATH)? Try to put full names to all executed commands.

[cameronsto]

Try changing the type of your item to 'Character' and see if it works then. I'm having a similar problem right now with a userparameter of my own that works as 'Character' but not as float.

-cameron

[bennethos]

if I check the zabbix_agentd in shell the script gives :
zabbix_agentd -p : | grep ping
ping.test [s|26.1]

tried it as charachter, added full path names for awk, sed, grep, ping etc...

weird thing is, it gives a correct value as you see, but when i check the log file :


in log file :
020467:20060218:111157 Active parameter [ping.test] is not supported by agent on host [mariko.gigaspeeds.be]
020467:20060218:111157 Type of received value [ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED] is not sutable for [[email protected]]

:-( getting desperate here

thx for your help so far

[Godzilla]

I have this type of problem also.

After upgrading from 1.1beta2 to beta6, I took me a couple of days to find out that my awk '{print $4}' needs to be changed to awk '{print $ 4}'

Also, the value cannot be saved as a float anymore. It needs to be saved as a character.

It's ridiculous to have a cron to save the value into a file then use UserParameter to cat the file for the value.

I cannot graph values defined under character.

How to solve this?

[Alexei]

I do not quite understand why the values cannot be saved as float. Do you see anything in zabbix_server log file? Anything in error field for the item? May I have result of execution of your custom script? Thanks.

[Godzilla]

my file that I'm trying to get info from:
# cat /home/as400p/monitor/cpysts
JOBLSTSTS $DATE $TIME JOBLSTSTS
COUNT
L-Deplotter 22/02/06 11:45:16 4
L-Plotter 22/02/06 11:45:16 4
1*CPYASN 22/02/06 11:45:16 1
- ++++++++ 00:00:00 9
* * * E N D O F R E P O R T * * *


what I'm trying to get:
# grep "00:00:00" /home/as400p/monitor/cpysts|awk '{print $ 4}'
9


my zabbix_agentd file:
UserParameter=as400p,grep "00:00:00" /home/as400p/monitor/cpysts|awk '{print $ 4}'


error reports a control char "^M" stuck at the end:
016617:20060222:123527 get_value_agent: host[HK.HF.SVR.ZabbixLocalhost] ip[172.16.0.31] key [as400p]
016617:20060222:123527 Sending [as400p]
016617:20060222:123527 Type of received value [9^M] is not sutable for [[email protected]]
016617:20060222:123527 Returning NOTSUPPORTED
016617:20060222:123527 Parameter [as400p] is not supported by agent on host [HK.HF.SVR.ZabbixLocalhost] Old status [0]


I'm trying to save as float but I cannot get rid of the control char.
It works fine in beta2, but not in beta6.

Thanks for any help

[Godzilla]

It works now. I added a "sed" statement.

grep "00:00:00" /home/as400p/monitor/cpysts|awk '{print $ 4}'|sed 's/\r//'

[bennethos]

not solved for me yet

here is my script again... :

when i run it :
mariko:/home/zabbix# ./ping_1500.sh
157

the script contains :
#!/bin/bash

/bin/ping -c 1 -s 1400 213.49.18.85 |/bin/grep icmp |/usr/bin/awk '{print $ 7}' |/bin/sed -e 's/time=//g' |/bin/sed -e 's/ //g' |/bin/sed 's/\r//'

Alexei, I added like you suggested full paths... and I changed print$7 to print $ 7 like godzilla...

when I do zabbix_agentd -p | grep pingtest I get :
pingtest [s|123]

My zabbix_agentd.conf contains :
UserParameter=pingtest,/home/zabbix/ping_1500.sh

my file permissions :
-rwxr-x--- 1 zabbix zabbix 387 2006-02-22 10:53 /home/zabbix/ping_1500.sh

my zabbix_server.log logfile indicates :

020467:20060222:105619 Active parameter [pingtest] is not supported by agent on host [mariko.gigaspeeds.be]

I tried it as charachter, float etc...



btw, I'm running a cron each 5 Minutes, that executes my script >> its in a ping.log file... then i added a UserParameter in zabbix_agentd.conf that cat's the log file AND THIS DOES WORK ! Even as a float !!!

Hope you can help me out alexei

running debian with 2.4.6 kernel and the latest beta zabbix

[krusty]

my file permissions :
-rwxr-x--- 1 zabbix zabbix 387 2006-02-22 10:53 /home/zabbix/ping_1500.sh

maybe you have to chmod the script like this

chmod 4750 ping_1500.sh

[bennethos]

still not working...

ZBX_NOT_SUPPORTED it gives me in the monitoring latest data, then I get in the items list an unsupported item

[elkor]

it's early.. and I have only been half following this thread so forgive me if this is something stupid or something that's been gone over before, but why is there a "s|" in your output?

wouldn't you just want numeric?

man, I need coffee.....

[cameronsto]

it's early.. and I have only been half following this thread so forgive me if this is something stupid or something that's been gone over before, but why is there a "s|" in your output?

wouldn't you just want numeric?

man, I need coffee.....

That's the way zabbix outputs the results when you do "zabbix_agentd -p". Go make some coffee.

-cameron