Monitoring Application

[IanStewart_Inoapps]

All,

We currently have multiple VM servers at our hosted data centre. We would like to use Zabbix to monitor not only the physical server and databases, but, also the applications.

Is there any way we can perform the following in Zabbix and attribute a success or fail?

1. Log Into An Application
2. Perform some 'task'
3. Interrogate the success of the 'task'

There may be instances, where a VM server is available and the DB is available, but, the application fails, so we want to capture this.

Thanks

Ian

[pcamelio]

Hi,

It depend on what you are looking for
If you just want to manage your application like a host

1) Make a fake host called _MY_APPLICATION
2) make an item result (two value: 0 KO / 1:OK)
3) make triggers

result.last(0) # 1 to test the value of result

result.nodata(3600) = 1 to Alert of no value get from 3600s (I suppose you test your appli every 3600 s

4) Make a script (started from crontab (unix) or task manager (windows)) which :
a) run your application
b) test the result (0 or 1)
c) send the result to zabbix using zabbix_sender like
zabbix_sender -z zbx_server -s _MY_APPLICATION -k result -o 0

5) Make a map

For exemple, I am using this kind of work to supervise several DFS replication on windows,

[ruswold]

Or, you may use "User Parameters"
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...ser_parameters

[sofinor]

I've just created a vbs script which I use in Zabbix to monitor DFSR.
Here is how I did, it might help you:

vbs script

'catch errors
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
Wscript.Echo "Error: " & Err.Number
Wscript.Echo "Error (Hex): " & Hex(Err.Number)
Wscript.Echo "Source: " &  Err.Source
Wscript.Echo "Description: " &  Err.Description
Err.Clear
Else

Function verifReplica(objField,objMember,objGroup,objFolder)
Set objWMIService=GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & objMember & "\root\MicrosoftDfs")
set colItems= objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM DfsrReplicatedFolderInfo WHERE ReplicatedFolderName ='" & objFolder & "' And ReplicationGroupName Like '%" & objGroup & "%'", "WQL")
for each objItem in colItems
select case objField
case "State"
verifReplica = objItem.State
case "ConflictSize"
verifReplica = objItem.CurrentConflictSizeInMb
case "StageSize"
verifReplica = objItem.CurrentStageSizeInMb
end select
next
end Function

parField=wscript.arguments(0)
parMember=wscript.arguments(1)
parGroup=wscript.arguments(2)
parFolder=wscript.arguments(3)

If isEmpty(verifReplica(parField, parMember, parGroup, parFolder)) Then 
  wscript.echo 9
Else
  wscript.echo verifReplica(parField, parMember, parGroup, parFolder)
End If
End If
Wscript.Quit

zabbix_agentd.conf on windows server:
in my case, my script is executed on a server which contacts other server's WMI, I though had to start the zabbix agent with a domain account with required rights;

UnsafeUserParameters=1
UserParameter=dfsrinfo[*],cscript.exe //Nologo "C:\dfsrinfo.vbs" $1 $2 $3 $4

On Zabbix, call the dfsrinfo userparameter:
Item -> key: dfsrinfo[State,Member,groupname,foldername]

Regards,

JBS