4 Trapper items

Overview

Zabbix server uses a JSON- based communication protocol for receiving data from Zabbix sender with the help of trapper item.

Request and response messages must begin with header and data length.

Zabbix sender request

  1. {
  2.     "request":"sender data",
  3.     "data":[
  4.         {
  5.             "host":"<hostname>",
  6.             "key":"trap",
  7.             "value":"test value"
  8.         }
  9.     ]
  10. }

Zabbix server response

  1. {
  2.     "response":"success",
  3.     "info":"processed: 1; failed: 0; total: 1; seconds spent: 0.060753"
  4. }

Zabbix sender request with a timestamp

Alternatively Zabbix sender can send a request with a timestamp and nanoseconds.

  1. {
  2.     "request":"sender data",
  3.     "data":[
  4.         {
  5.             "host":"<hostname>",
  6.             "key":"trap",
  7.             "value":"test value",
  8.             "clock":1516710794,
  9.             "ns":592397170
  10.         },
  11.         {
  12.             "host":"<hostname>",
  13.             "key":"trap",
  14.             "value":"test value",
  15.             "clock":1516710795,
  16.             "ns":192399456
  17.         }
  18.     ],
  19.     "clock":1516712029,
  20.     "ns":873386094
  21. }

Zabbix server response

  1. {
  2.     "response":"success",
  3.     "info":"processed: 2; failed: 0; total: 2; seconds spent: 0.060904"
  4. }