Pushing data from remote hosts

[evarn]

Hi,

I'm in a situation where I support a number of different customers, who all live behind their own firewalls... I want to use a single linux box to do rudimentary monitoring (daily checks) of their systems. Zabbix would appear to give me the interface I want, however, because we don't NAT from our LAN to each customer, I have no direct route to any servers to gather the data...

Is there any conceviable way that agent data could be gathered manually on a server by running a process once a day, and then emailing or ftp'ing the data "back home" to be parsed by zabbix?

Cheers and thanks in advance

Ivan
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[riegersteve]

why dont you just use a local small zabbix server on each machine and have them all write to one db, and then your real zabbix server can read all the status info off that same db

[evarn]

hmm. it's an idea.. but my main issue is that there is no way to direct connect from my network to any of my customers because there is no NAT'ing. the only way in/out effectively would be email and/or maybe ftp. the second issue is I don't want to install anything invasive that would require change control. (getting approval from the customer etc.) just basically want to runa process that creates a file or files that I can grab once a day and "import" into zabbix.

make sense?

anyway... it's probably all too hard but thatnks for the help

Ivan

[safl]

Seems like you don't really want to do server monitoring. Only getting hostinfo once a day is not really useful.

have a look at http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/
It's probably more down your alley.

[evarn]

Yeah. I thought I could use the server I do monitoring local stuff for daily checks on remote stuff too... i guess i'll just have to do it manually :)