Zabbix Bash Completion

Bash completion for Zabbix commands

To try this out, source the files. For example:

$ . zabbix_get-completion; . zabbix-utils-completion
$ zabbix_get -<tab><tab>

For zabbix_get, item key completion is available. Available item keys are hardcoded. If the currently completed key ends with an opening square bracket, space is not appended to allow adding positional parameters. For example:

$ zabbix_get -k system.u<tab><tab>
system.uname      system.uptime     system.users.num

For zabbix_agentd, item key completion is available. If the currently completed key ends with an opening square bracket, space is not appended to allow adding positional parameters. Available item keys are read from the agent binary that is specified. For example:

$ zabbix_agentd -t system.u<tab><tab>
system.uname      system.uptime     system.users.num

For all daemons, runtime options are completed. For log level changing:

• PID list is completed by the parent PID from the configuration file, if supplied. If not supplied, all processes on the system that match the currently completed processes are listed
• Process name completion uses a hardcoded process list. For processes that have a space in the name, backspace-escaped space is supported. Doublequoting the parameters is not supported. For processes where more than one process is possible, trailing space is not added to allow specifying process number. Process number is completed from the output of 'ps'. For example:

    $ zabbix_agentd -R log_level_increase=<tab><tab>
    active\ checks  collector       listener

    $ zabbix_server -R log_level_increase=poller,<tab><tab>
    poller,1  poller,2  poller,3  poller,4  poller,5

For all completions, parameters are supported via space. Specifying them right away or via an equal sign (like -pvalue or --param=value) is not supported.

Installing

Simple testing can be done by sourcing the files. Completion for get and sender depends on zabbix-utils-completion. Completion for agentd, server and proxy depends on zabbix-daemons-completion.

To make Zabbix command completion available permanently, place all the files in /etc/bash_completion.d/ and start a new shell session.

Requirements

• awk
• ip
• bash-completion

Troubleshooting

• _get_comp_words_by_ref: command not found

  Package bash-completion must be installed