The method covered earlier, the embedded Perl receiver, is easy to set up and performs well. If it is not possible to use it for some reason or some advanced filtering is required, a custom script could push trap values to items. This subsection will use an example script shipped with Zabbix to demonstrate such a solution.
We'll place the example SNMP trap-parsing script in the Zabbix user's home directory:
# cp misc/snmptrap/snmptrap.sh /home/zabbix/bin
Let's take a look at that script now. Open the file we just copied to /home/zabbix/bin/snmptrap.sh. As you can see, this is a very simplistic script, which gets passed trap information and then sends it to the Zabbix server, using both host snmptrap and key snmptrap ...
