Newbie Question #1
(So I typed something in, and it got lost in posting. Or it posted, and this will be a duplicate.)
Howdy. Been using Zabbix 2 months, and love it.
I have a switch that I want to get temperature data from. SNMP will give me that data. Yay! But it gives it to me in the form of "50.500000000 C" and Zabbix won't see that a number, floating or otherwise. Booo!
So I lashed up a script to use snmpget to pull the data and then sed and awk to trim it to a number, and Zabbix can start grabbing it once I made a template item out of it. Yayyyy!
But once you add this template to multiple switches, performance drops and so does data gathering. I don't get consistent data from my DRACs anymore. Boooo! (This is spite of the fact that the machine never breaks a sweat, I might add.)
So how do you truncate data? If you can't, how do you economize the server to where I can do those external scripts?
Howdy. Been using Zabbix 2 months, and love it.
I have a switch that I want to get temperature data from. SNMP will give me that data. Yay! But it gives it to me in the form of "50.500000000 C" and Zabbix won't see that a number, floating or otherwise. Booo!
So I lashed up a script to use snmpget to pull the data and then sed and awk to trim it to a number, and Zabbix can start grabbing it once I made a template item out of it. Yayyyy!
But once you add this template to multiple switches, performance drops and so does data gathering. I don't get consistent data from my DRACs anymore. Boooo! (This is spite of the fact that the machine never breaks a sweat, I might add.)
So how do you truncate data? If you can't, how do you economize the server to where I can do those external scripts?
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