# Logstash Zabbix Output Plugin Doesn't Use PSKs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-zabbix-output-plugin-doesnt-use-psks/136141>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-zabbix-output-plugin-doesnt-use-psks/136141 "2018-06-15T21:08:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![adamkasztenny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@adamkasztenny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adamkasztenny)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-zabbix-output-plugin-doesnt-use-psks/136141/1 "2018-06-15T21:08:52Z")

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We were debugging the code for the logstash-output-zabbix plugin, and found it doesn't use zabbix\_sender to communicate with Zabbix. Our Zabbix instance did not authorize the plugin to communicate with it.

zabbix\_sender takes a -c argument, which allows you to pass in your Zabbix agent config, and it presumably figures out the PSK information from there. The plugin should probably should call zabbix\_sender, or be more robust to allow passing in PSKs.

What do you think @theuntergeek?

Version of the plugin: 3.0.5  
Version of the entire ELK stack: 6.3.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-zabbix-output-plugin-doesnt-use-psks/136141/2 "2018-06-15T23:35:05Z")

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The plugin is in need of updating, clearly. Not sure when I can get to it, though 😢

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**Author:** ![adamkasztenny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@adamkasztenny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adamkasztenny)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-zabbix-output-plugin-doesnt-use-psks/136141/3 "2018-06-18T15:23:16Z")

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Thanks for the reply. If I have some spare time I'll look into this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-zabbix-output-plugin-doesnt-use-psks/136141/4 "2018-07-16T15:23:33Z")

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Closed on July 16, 2018, 3:23pm UTC

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