Serial port checking

[zagor]

Hi,
I would like to know if Zabbix Win32 agent supports the checking of devices connected to the serial port, or if it is in working progress? my need is only to know if the device connected to the serial port on the remote machine is up, even better if I can send commands on it and read the response.

Thanks in advance,

Luca

[James Wells]

Greetings,

In and of itself, No, Zabbix does not support this capability. Having said that however, please note that you can write custom scripts that Zabbix will call to test things like this. You best bet on learning how to do this would be to read through the Cookbook section (http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/cookbook.php) of the manual and the Cookbook section (http://www.zabbix.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=11) of the forums. Both locations contain various discussions on using custom monitors and IIRC, there is even a couple of scripts for checking various items under Windows.