NAME

Zabbix::Utils -- Useful miscellanea related to Zabbix

DESCRIPTION

This is a collection of miscellaneous things useful to have in the event that you're doing something with the Zabbix::API distribution.

FUNCTIONS

None so far.

EXPORTS

None by default.

EXPORTABLE

RE_FORMULA

This constant (in the use constant sense) is a regular expression that will match against parts of formulas of calculated items thusly:

  use Zabbix::Utils qw/RE_FORMULA/;

  # interpolating constants is problematic
  my $regexp = RE_FORMULA;

  my $formula = 'last("MyROuter2:ifHCInOctets5")+last("MyROuter2:ifHCInOctets23")';

  while ($formula =~ m/$regexp/g) {

      print Dumper(\%+);

  }

Which should output:

  $VAR1 = {
            'function_call' => 'last("MyROuter2:ifHCInOctets5")',
            'function_args_quote' => '"',
            'item' => 'ifHCInOctets5',
            'function_args' => 'MyROuter2:ifHCInOctets5',
            'host' => 'MyROuter2'
          };
  $VAR1 = {
            'function_call' => 'last("MyROuter2:ifHCInOctets23")',
            'function_args_quote' => '"',
            'item' => 'ifHCInOctets23',
            'function_args' => 'MyROuter2:ifHCInOctets23',
            'host' => 'MyROuter2'
          };

Item arguments (system.uptime[minutes]) appear in item_arg which is not represented here (fixme!).

You'll have noticed that this makes use of the excellent "named capture buffers" feature, which means you need Perl 5.10 or higher.

SEE ALSO

Zabbix::API, the Zabbix API documentation at http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/start.

AUTHOR

Fabrice Gabolde <fabrice.gabolde@uperto.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2011 SFR

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPLv3.