Problem with Zabbix Server in Squid Monitoring

[fricardo]

Hello all:

I'm monitoring a Squid proxy using the program squidclient with UserParameter. In zabbix_agentd.conf in the proxy machine I wrote:

UserParameter=squid.requests,squidclient mgr:info|grep 'Average HTTP'|cut -d':' -f2

When I test the return:

# zabbix_agentd -t squid.requests
squid.requests                                [t|       1190.5]

Zabbix_agentd is 1.1.1. In the Server side (Zabbix 1.1) the Web frontend displays the item as "unsupported".

The log in the zabbix_server I have:

011021:20060830:105516 Type of received value [ 1188.2] is not sutable for [squid.requests@xxxx] having type [0]
011021:20060830:105516 Parameter [squid.requests] is not supported by agent on host [xxxx] Old status [0]
011021:20060830:105516 Type of received value [ 1188.2] is not sutable for [squid.requests@xxxx] having type [0]

What's the problem?

fricardo

[Alexei]

Please get rid of spaces to make it work. It is already fixed in 1.1.2 (not released yet).

[fricardo]

[SOLVED!] Thanks to the help!

Thanks Alexey ... It's working now. I used tr comand to clean string spaces. Thanks!

[apiero]

[SOLVED!] Thanks to the help (rev. 2)!

Hi there,

just to add my 2 cents .
I tried this solution on zabbix 1.4.3 but the problem reported is still present... so the complete command, to remove tabs and spaces on the agent is:

UserParameter=squid.meanrequests,/usr/sbin/squidclient mgr:info|grep 'Average HTTP'|cut -d':' -f2| tr -d ' \t'

Bye and thanks for your work!
Piero

[richlv]

resurrecting an old thread

Please get rid of spaces to make it work. It is already fixed in 1.1.2 (not released yet).

did this mean that data for int/float items would be automatically stripped from whitespace characters ?
that's not happening with agent 1.4.5/server 1.4.6.