Manually querying items
Adding items to the frontend and waiting for them to update is one way of seeing whether you got the item key right. It is not a very quick method, though—you have to wait for the server to get to checking the item. If you are not sure about the parameters or would like to test different combinations, the easiest way to do this is with a utility called zabbix_get. When installing from source, it is installed together with the Zabbix agent. When installing from the packages, it could be installed together with the Zabbix agent or it could also be in a separate package. Using it is very simple: if we want to query the agent on the Zabbix server, we will run this on our Zabbix server, a test host.
On Debian/Ubuntu, run ...
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