Can Zabbix Monitor MXBeans?

[asankha]

I was searching for MXBeans within the forums, but was unable to find any results. Could someone let me know if Zabbix fully supports MXBeans?

thanks
asankha

[nelsonab]

Define "fully supports". Zabbix can do a lot of things, often you just need to put a little up front effort into pushing the data into Zabbix. There is a JMX agent for Zabbix, maybe that will help.

[asankha]

What I meant by "Fully Supports" is whether Zabbix can be used to monitor values exposed by MXBeans - instead of the normal MBeans. The MXBeans may have composite data elements. Is there any known limitations to using these values from Zabbix?

[nelsonab]

http://www.kjkoster.org/zapcat/Zapcat_JMX_Zabbix_Bridge.html

If you can't do it with that then you will need to roll your own interface with for Zabbix. That could be a simple matter of a script which when uses the zabbix_sender to send the data on a periodic basis, or using userparameters on the local host. "fully supported" can be a tough question because of the flexibilities of Zabbix and the vagueness of your request.

As an example, SMTP Auth is not listed as a feature for sending alerts and it's not shown in the frontend. It's easy to say that it is not "fully supported", but that would be very short sighted. Zabbix has the ability to use external scripts for sending messages, thus this script can take care of the SMTP Auth, making it "fully supported."