Zabbix Agent running Trigger

[rastaferraille]

Hi everybody

I would like to know how to monitor if the zabbix agent is running on my servers.
I explain myself :
I made a template with a simple check on the port 10050 (tcp,10050). My trigger is defined like this : {Template_WindowsLinux:tcp,10050.last(0)}#1
My problem is the folowing :
When I stop the agent on a server, the server becomes unreachable and the trigger has no effect because his last value is still 1.

Have you got a good solution to monitor if an agent is running, if a server is not responding (fping for instance)

Thanks

[moshen]

What I have done is create a trapper item for the server whose agent I wanted to monitor, then scripted the check using zabbix sender to reference that item. In the script I check to see if the server is pingable and try to connect to the agent port.