While in the creation of monitored items, you can choose the type of value, currently some integer, float, logs, text strings. But do not be mistaken when zabbix collected data is collected according to this format.
zabbix various collected data interfaces are of type string, just in time to allow the display of user-selectable, selected integer floating point data will be stored in a data-hour trend data,
select another type of non-digital, We can only save the historical data,
zabbix collected data string is
the difference between integer and floating point is that, if the monitoring item types selected integer values, but the appearance of floating-point data strings, then after the turn zabbix integer not support strong floating-point, integer can only support such a string.
So he will show a "string 1.1 is not compatible with integer" This message while monitoring item becomes non-support type. This time as long as the data type to float on OK