Zabbix Sender Download [NEW]
Doreen Collicott
zabbix_sender is a command line utility for sending monitoring data to Zabbix server or proxy. On the Zabbix server an item of type Zabbix trapper should be created with corresponding key. Note that incoming values will only be accepted from hosts specified in Allowed hosts field for this item.
-c, --config config-file
Use config-file. Zabbix sender reads server details from the agentd configuration file. By default Zabbix sender does not read any configuration file. Only parameters Hostname, ServerActive, SourceIP, TLSConnect, TLSCAFile, TLSCRLFile, TLSServerCertIssuer, TLSServerCertSubject, TLSCertFile, TLSKeyFile, TLSPSKIdentity and TLSPSKFile are supported. All addresses defined in the agent ServerActive configuration parameter are used for sending data. If sending of batch data fails to one address, the following batches are not sent to this address.
-z, --zabbix-server server
Hostname or IP address of Zabbix server. If a host is monitored by a proxy, proxy hostname or IP address should be used instead. When used together with --config, overrides the entries of ServerActive parameter specified in agentd configuration file.
The value type must be correctly set in item configuration of Zabbix frontend. Zabbix sender will send up to 250 values in one connection. Size limit for sending values from an input file depends on the size described in Zabbix communication protocol. Contents of the input file must be in the UTF-8 encoding. All values from the input file are sent in a sequential order top-down. Entries must be formatted using the following rules:
zabbix_sender -z 192.168.1.113 -s "Monitored Host" -k mysql.queries -o 342.45 --tls-connect psk --tls-psk-identity "PSK ID Zabbix agentd" --tls-psk-file /home/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.psk
If a configuration file is specified, Zabbix sender uses all addresses defined in the agent ServerActive configuration parameter for sending data. If sending to one address fails, the sender tries sending to the other addresses. If sending of batch data fails to one address, the following batches are not sent to this address.
Since Zabbix 1.8.4, zabbix_sender realtime sending scenarios have been improved to gather multiple values passed to it in close succession and send them to the server in a single connection. A value that is not further apart from the previous value than 0.2 seconds can be put in the same stack, but maximum pooling time still is 1 second.
The library is an implementation of zabbix_sender utility, which sends items data to zabbix serverusing the zabbix trapper protocol. Because the library is a pure Node.js/Javascript implementation, it doesn'trequire invocation of zabbix_sender utility. So there is no any child_process involved!
Sends all items that were added to the request payload.The callback function passes 3 arguments error (if any), the response from zabbix server (trapper),and the items array of item objects. The send method clears items that were previously added.In case of error, the previously added items will be kept, for the next send invocation.
However, from time to time due to failover/other cases those hosts which are being monitored by Zabbix Proxy change Zabbix proxy from one to another. As a result Zabbix new proxy rejects data which is being sent by sender as long as sender uses an old Zabbix proxy.
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