Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Wrapper scripts

Commands to be executed can be specified in the Zabbix agent daemon configuration file on a single line only. Pushing whole scripts there can be very messy and sometimes it can be hard to figure out the quotation. In such cases, a wrapper script has to be written. Such a script can be useful if parsing data requires more complex actions, or if parsing out multiple different values can't be easily done with flexible user parameters.

It's important to remember that using user parameters and custom scripts requires these to be distributed on all monitored hosts—that involves the scripts themselves and changes to the Zabbix agent daemon's configuration file.

This can soon become hard to manage. Various systems will require different ...