3 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.        }