Ping host from a zabbix agent

[vinny]

I searched through the forum and the doc but so far I have not found an answer.
Is it possible to ping a server within a Zabbix agent ?

What I want is :
Zabbix server -> server A with zbx agent, check if ping working to server B

thx,
vinny

[sergio.cricca]

I think you should create a script that pings server B and returns 0 if it's OK or 1 if it fails... instruct agent to run it, then create item on the script and instruct on how often to run it and at the end create trigger on the item ;-)


ex: zabbix_server.conf (or something like this)

UserParameter=pinghostB, /usr/sbin/ping <host B>

then create item on pinghostB, etc.

Bye

[vinny]

thx for the reply,
I thought about this solution but would hope secretly that a parameter would exist directly within the agent.