Is Zabbix agent able to get multiple metrics with one call to an external command?

Question

Zabbix

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/something.conf now says:

UserParameter=some.thing[*],/etc/zabbix/scripts/something.sh $1

something.sh reads metrics from a file.
Because there are many metrics, then something.sh is called many times, and many times it parses the same file.
Question:
Can Zabbix call an external script to get several metrics in one call?
Google finds only discussions about UserParameterGroup and BulkUserParameter, which have remained discussions.

Answer 1

It is possible to cache the parsing result (or intermediate result) in the script.
Or use the zabbix trapper, and in the script pull zabbix_sender, which will already push a bunch of values ​​\u200b\u200bto the server (you can send a file with a list to it).