Zabbix sender failed due to :space: character within key name

[tsolev]

Hi all,
I have configured low level discovery for specific Linux directories in order to calculate their sizes, but I'm forced to use zabbix_sender, as the built in key "vfs.dir.size" takes a lot of time to calculate and eventually times out.
So, it is working correctly for keys, not containing :space: characters (refer to the attached screenshots):

$ cat test2.out
Jenkins jenkins_jobs_lev1["/data/jenkins/jobs/VIEW/jobs/Emplacement-Viewer-Testserver"] 10929

$ zabbix_sender -v -z zsrvr.local -i test2.out
Response from "zsrvr.local:10051": "processed: 1; failed: 0; total: 1; seconds spent: 0.000064"
sent: 1; skipped: 0; total: 1

But it is failing for a similar key, which contains 1 or more space characters (refer to the attached screenshots):

$ cat test3.out
Jenkins jenkins_jobs_lev1["/data/jenkins/jobs/VIEW/jobs/Versioning Test"] 2037866

$ zabbix_sender -v -z zsrvr.local -i test3.out
Response from "zsrvr.local:10051": "processed: 0; failed: 1; total: 1; seconds spent: 0.000019"
sent: 1; skipped: 0; total: 1

Versions:
zabbix_server: 5.4.7
zabbix_sender: 5.4.7

I have read the zabbix_sender man page and it says:

Contents of the input file must be in the UTF-8 encoding. Entries must be formatted using the following rules:
...
· Quoted and non-quoted entries are supported.
· Double-quote is the quoting character.
· Entries with whitespace must be quoted.
...

Any suggestions are welcome.
Thank you!

[tsolev]

Is there no solution?

[tim.mooney]

Is there anything logged in the zabbix_server.log at the time that you attempt sending the one that doesn't work?

If not (or even if there is, but it's not useful), have you tried briefly increasing the server logging, before testing, to see if there's a clue logged?

Also, 5.4.12 is the current latest in the Zabbix 5.4 series. Have you looked at the release notes for 5.4.8 through 5.4.12, to see if your specific problem is mentioned?

[cyber]

You are quoting part of the item (parameters), not whole item... I think you should try with

Jenkins "jenkins_jobs_lev1[\"/data/jenkins/jobs/VIEW/jobs/Versioning Test\"]" 2037866

Double-quote and backslash characters inside quoted entry must be escaped with a backslash.

[tsolev]

tim.mooney : Thanks for the suggestion, the post by cyber fixed the problem.
cyber : your suggestions work like a charm! Thank you very much!!!

So, to sum it up:

jenkins_server "key[\"/data/path with spaces\"]" value

zabbix_sender -v -z zsrvr.local -i test3.out

Response from "zsrvr.local:10051": "processed: 1; failed: 0; total: 1; 0.000042"
sent: 1; skipped: 0; total: 1