Active checks only and host availability

[nocturn]

I'm using Zabbix to monitor several hosts over the Internet.

Because I cannot use the normal agent listening on port 10050 (for security reasons), I'm experimenting with active checks.

This seems to work fine, but when a host goes down (or stops sending checks), there's no indication or alert in Zabbix.

What would be the right way to get this to work? Is it possible to have an active agent send some kind of heartbeat signal?

Thanks

Zabbix is 1.8.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

[JBo]

Hi,

This seems to work fine, but when a host goes down (or stops sending checks), there's no indication or alert in Zabbix.

What would be the right way to get this to work? Is it possible to have an active agent send some kind of heartbeat signal?

You van use agent.ping item as heartbeat and nodata function in associated trigger:

{host:agent.ping.nodata(120)}=1

will trigger if no data is received during 2 minutes.

Hope this helps,
JBo

[nocturn]

Hi,



You van use agent.ping item as heartbeat and nodata function in associated trigger:

{host:agent.ping.nodata(120)}=1

will trigger if no data is received during 2 minutes.

Hope this helps,
JBo

Thanks JBo