Using cut or split in formula to parse a string

[jeff.gilbertson]

I searched the manual and the forum, and can't find an answer to this question.

Suppose I have a custom UserParameter (en_data) that returns the following:

en0:0:0:1234:9876:3579:3159:0:113

That would have an item created to store as-is.


Is it possible to then create separate calculated value items from each colon-delimited parameter?

ie:

Host.iface=(split(/:/, en_data))[0]
Host.xmitdropped=(split(/:/, en_data))[1]
Host.rcvdropped=(split(/:/, en_data))[2]

etc, etc

or:

Host.iface=(cut -d ":" -f0),en_data
Host.xmitdropped=(cut -d ":" -f1),en_data

etc, etc

Reason is ...

If I have three interfaces, and each interface has 10 parameters, that is 30 requests for data from the agent.

If I could split the colon-delimited result, I could reduce that to one request per interface, effectively moving the workload from the client-side (agent) to the server-side.

Is this remotely possible?

Thanks!

[Tractorboy]

Not that I am aware

But really do believe it would be a good feature. I know I'd use it, as I have many times wanted this and have had to make multiple requests to gather the same.

I have also in some cases worked around this by using vbs (appreciate not good for your example)

I call a vbs script, which itself then uses zabbix sender to push out all the key/value pairs of results. Finally returning 0 for success if all succeeded.