Does RemoteCommands work with Active Check agents?

[elvar]

I have a remote command set up to restart Postfix if SMTPD is not running and according to my event logs it says it executed the restart command but yet nothing logged in /var/log/mail.log nor zabbix_agentd.log. I have EnableRemoteCommands=1 and logging of remote commands but yet I see nothing. Does remote commands even work with Active Check only agents?

2010.Mar.08 12:58:53 executed Command:
{HOSTNAME}:sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

Regards

[elvar]

Good news and bad news.

Good news = The remote command to restart postfix works fine for me on agents that operate in passive mode.

Bad news = The remote command to restart postfix doesn't work on any of my monitored agents that operate in active check mode only.

Is there a way to make it work with active check agents as well?

[elvar]

Having read various forum posts in the last couple days on active checks, it seems like a lot of you zabbix power users use Active Checks instead of Passive. If that is the case, are you guys not making use of remote commands then?

[trikke]

Hi,

as far as I know you can have your agent defined as "active" by configuring DisableActive=0 in your agent.conf.

Your items can be passive by defining "Zabbix Agent" or "Zabbix Agent (active)" on the item config.

So basically this schould be possible!

Greets
Patrick

[elvar]

Hi,

as far as I know you can have your agent defined as "active" by configuring DisableActive=0 in your agent.conf.

Your items can be passive by defining "Zabbix Agent" or "Zabbix Agent (active)" on the item config.

So basically this schould be possible!

Greets
Patrick

The problem is, I don't have the ability to set up an inbound port forward for any "passive" checks to work. My only options are Active check items.