Zabbix trapper

Zabbix supports many ways to monitor our devices but sometimes we just want that little extra that is not possible out of the box with all the tools provided such as agents, IPMI, SNMP, and so on. But even when it seems impossible to monitor, Zabbix has a solution ready. Zabbix provides zabbix_sender, a tool to send data that we have gathered by, for example, our own scripts. This data will then be sent to the Zabbix server. The data sent to the server will be gathered by the Zabbix trapper.

Getting ready

To be able to finish this task successfully, we need a Zabbix server and a host with the zabbix_sender tool installed on our host.

How to do it…

• Make sure you have the zabbix_sender tool installed on a host in your network. This can be done from the Zabbix repositories by running the following command:

  yum install zabbix-sender -y
  

• Next step is to create an item on our host. Configuration | Hosts | Items | Create item.

• Fill in the Name of your item.

• Select Zabbix trapper as Type...