Ping from PC to Host

[Zaniwoop]

From my server I can determine the ping delay and ping loss to a PC at site A and to a host at site B.

I would like to be able to determine the same directly between the PC and the Host.

To do this I would need the agent on the PC to ping the host and return the values back. The PC is running Windows.

Any idea how I achieve this?

[bashman]

You can tell Zabbix Agent on your Windows PC to do ping to the host, and Zabbix Server will collect the ping value from your Windows PC.

[Zaniwoop]

ok, that's the idea, but you want to be more specific as to how I do this?

[bashman]

1. Download zabbix agent: http://www.zabbix.com/download.php

2. Install zabbix agent on your Windows pc.

3. Add this new host in zabbix gui frontend.

4. Add an item with key: icmpping[<target>,<packets>,<interval>,<size>,<timeout>], where <target> is your destination host.

4. Add trigger and action.

[Zaniwoop]

icmpping and it's derivatives are not supported by the agent.

[bashman]

Is your agent running on your windows hosts?.

Try to add this to your zabbix_agentd.conf:

UserParameter=ping[*],/bin/ping -q -c 1 -w 2 $1 > /dev/null; echo $?

Modify it for windows ping, and if echo returns 0, the destination host is reachable.

Then add your item with key = ping[x.x.x.x]

[Zaniwoop]

I have been trying to simulate the icmppingsec with the following (DOS) command:

UserParameter=test.ping,FOR /F "usebackq skip=11 tokens=6 delims== " %i IN (`ping 10.9.8.7`) DO @echo %i

Which returns the average response time, but includes the 'ms' suffex, which doesn't go down well as an integer.

eg. it returns 32ms and not 32

Any ideas?

[bashman]

So this means that you can ping from your windows host to destination and that your zabbix agent is running.

I don't really know why your icmpping item is not supported, it works fine for me.

You can get the cut command for windows and "cut" the ms from your 32ms value.

[Zaniwoop]

Magic!

ping 10.9.8.1 | grep Average | cut -f4 -d"=" | cut -f1 -d"m"