Internal/External Interface monitoring on single host entry

[cepler]

It seems that Zabbix is very IP centric in that a host is locked to an IP address and if you want to do anything to another IP address for that host you have to make a new host entry.

The problem I face is I'd like to be able to perform 'ping' tests to multiple interfaces on a host but keep a SINGLE host record. So I'd like to have a ping to internal and a ping to external both on host-xyz.

I was thinking I could hack something like this together with zabbix_agentd and 'UserParameter's...but thought I'd check to see if anyone else is doing something simliar and how they're doing it. Thanks! I've just started using Zabbix so am still quite a newbie at things so theres a definate possibility I'm missing some hidden variable or 'key' value somewhere...

[cepler]

No suggestions? Basically I just want to do a directed ping from the Zabbix server to a specific IP address (ICMP). Future functionality perhaps?

[ildar]

I agree. This is an important thing.

Though this topic should be moved to Forum: ZABBIX Suggestions and Feedback

[jameno123]

Most definiatly, we run an internal & external network having to create 2 seperate host entries is not very nice. HOWEVER, as well, 1 machine generally has 2-3 ips on it. We currently have to create a new host entry not just for the seperate netcards but for seperate ip aliases as well.

Would be nice to be able to tie this all under a single physical "hostname".