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1 Overview of Zabbix
2 Goals and Principles
3 Installation and Upgrade Notes
4. What's new in Zabbix 1.8
5 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.1
6 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.2
7 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.3
8 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.4
9 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.5
10 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.6
11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.7
11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.8
11 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.9
12 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.10
13 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.11
14 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.12
15 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.13
15 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.14
16 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.15
17 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.16
18 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.17
19 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.18
20 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.20
21 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.21
22 What's new in Zabbix 1.8.22
1 How to Get Zabbix
2 Requirements
3 Components
4 Installation from Source
5 Upgrading
6 Using Zabbix appliance
1 Zabbix Server
2 Zabbix Proxy
3 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Standalone daemon)
4 Zabbix Agent (UNIX, Inetd version)
5 Zabbix Agent (Windows)
6 Zabbix Sender (UNIX)
7 Zabbix Get (UNIX)
8 Special notes on "Include" configuration parameter
1 Actions
2 Macros
3 Applications
4 Graphs
5 Media
6 Host templates
7 Host groups
8 Host and trigger dependencies
10 User Parameters
11 Windows performance counters
12 Triggers
13 Screens and Slide Shows
14 IT Services
15 User permissions
16 The Queue
17 Utilities
18 Regular expressions
19 Items
20 Frontend definitions
21 Suffixes
22 Time period specification
1 Login
2 Add user
3 Email settings
4 Monitoring an agent-enabled host
5 Set up notifications
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 Host export
4 Host import
5 Map export and import
6 Screen export and import
1 Extending Zabbix Agents
2 Monitoring of log files
3 Remote commands
4 Monitoring of Windows Services
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 WEB Scenario
4 WEB Step
5 Real life scenario
1 Overview
2 How it works
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 How it works
4 Network discovery rule
5 Real life scenario
1 Special OIDs
2 Use of dynamic indexes
1 Goals
2 IPMI parameters
3 IPMI actions
1 Why use Proxy?
2 Proxy v.s. Node
3 Configuration
1 Goals
2 Overview
3 Configuration
4 Platform independence
5 Configuration of a single Node
6 Switching between nodes
7 Data flow
8 Performance considerations
1 Goals
2 Configuration
3 How it looks like
1 Creating your own theme
2 Configuration
3 Administration
4 Page parameters
1 Real world configuration
2 Performance tuning
1 General Recipes
2 Monitoring of Specific Applications
3 Integration
1 Error and warning messages
2 Sound in browsers
1 Overview
2 Simple messages
3 Remote commands
4 Repeated notifications
5 Delayed notifications
6 Escalate to Boss
7 Complex scenario
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Example API session
Getting started with Zabbix API
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1 Zabbix Agent
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7 Zabbix Get (UNIX)

Zabbix get is a process which communicates with Zabbix agent and retrieves required information.

The utility is usually used for troubleshooting of Zabbix agents.

Zabbix get can be started by executing:

shell> cd bin shell> ./zabbix_get -s 127.0.0.1 -p 10050 -k "system.cpu.load[all,avg1]"

Zabbix get accepts the following command line parameters:

 -s --host <host name or IP> Specify host name or IP address of a host.  -p --port <port number> Specify port number of agent running on the host. Default is 10050.  -I --source-address <IP address> Specify source IP address.  -k --key <item key> Specify key of item to retrieve value for.  -h --help Give this help.  -V --version Display version number.

In order to get this help run:

shell> zabbix_get --help
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