Web applications often provide monitoring information via HTTP.

For example, if you call https://user:[email protected]/admin/monitoring.jsp you get key/value pairs like this:

—
app.sessions.active = 12
app.cached.elements = 2000
app.status.productload = OK (5124 products)
app.status.pricetable = FAIL
—

Currently you have to write a script which is called by a item to parse the resulting page and add the value to zabbix.

It would be very helpful to have a zabbix-internal item-parameter which does this job - for example:

Definition:
web.page.parse.regexp[<hostname>,<path>,<port>,<protocol>,<regex>,<length>]

host - hostname (if empty, use default)
path - path to HTML document (default is /)
port - port number (default is 80)
protocol - http or https
regexp - GNU regular expression
length - maximum number of characters to return

Return value:
The matched string, if a regex group is specified the the content of the first group will be returned.

Examples:
web.page.parse.regexp[www.foo.bar,/monitor.jsp,80,http,app.status.productload = (..*) : \d+ products,4]
=> line: app.status.productload = OK (5124 products)
=> zabbix value: OK
web.page.parse.regexp[www.foo.bar,/monitor.jsp,80,http,app.status.pricetable = (..*),12]
=> line: app.status.pricetable = FAIL
=> zabbix value: FAIL

I think that
web.page.regexp[host,<path>,<port>,<regexp>,<length>]
is pretty close to this...

Regards
Marc