Custom monitoring in Windows custom applications

[tnine]

Hi all,
I'm working on integrating several custom application with a Zabbix client in Windows. I'm new to Zabbix and I'm currently evaluating it for production use. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of options for integrating the Zabbix agent with our custom applications? They're all written in C# .NET 3.5. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is using SNMP integration with our custom applications, then pulling the SNMP data using the agent. Thoughts, comments, concerns?

Thanks,
Todd

[tnine]

I've recently tried to download the source for the Windows agent, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, only the binaries. I've check the svn server svn://svn.zabbix.com/ but haven't had any luck. Where does the source for the Windows service live?

Thanks,
Todd

[NOB]

Hi all,
I'm working on integrating several custom application with a Zabbix client in Windows. I'm new to Zabbix and I'm currently evaluating it for production use. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of options for integrating the Zabbix agent with our custom applications? They're all written in C# .NET 3.5. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is using SNMP integration with our custom applications, then pulling the SNMP data using the agent. Thoughts, comments, concerns?

Thanks,
Todd

Before trying to modify the agent, check for usefulness of

1. user parameters or
2. zabbix_sender (with scheduled tasks)

in your environment.

On the other hand, why not implement an agent inside your application.
You may want to take a look at the zapcat agent. It's written in Java (a certain affinity to C# exists, I guess) and has the ZABBIX agent protocol implemented. That way you can have the normal ZABBIX Agent running
on the system and yours integrated in the applicaiton.
I didn't look into the license for Zapcat. That's your task if you want to re-use parts of the code.

The source code for the Windows agent is included in the downloads.
I didn't have any problem in compiling the (1.6.x) agent with VS2008 and used the scripts in
this version to compile the 1.4.x agents.

HTH,

Norbert.