Distributed web checks

[gelowe]

I am trying to understand web checks

I thought the checks would run via the agent and then get collected by the zabbix server, I mean why else would you be allowed to assign a particular web check to a particular agent. Unfortunately i have done some testing and it does not seem this way. I assigned a web check to a client to test something that the client could not access but the zabbix server could and the check still works.

So now I need to know what I need to do to setup a remote server to run web checks. Could I do a distributed server setup and just have a server do the web checks?

[sean]

Interesting I had just come to the same conclusion. I was trying to debug what a webcheck was failing on a zabbix client, presuming that it was actually running on the client.
Setting Debug=4 on the client showed no relevant activity in the client log though.
You posted a month ago, did you find any solution?

[Heilig]

Zabbix server does not use the agent for web checks.
Proxy is also not suitable for this task.

Only one way out - using the distributed nodes.

[sean]

Thanks, I found from another post that trapper items work well for what I nbeed just now, i.e. create a custom web script on a node, run and debug it on the command line. When it works, use zabbix_send to send the result back.
Of course that does not give all the measurements of each step etc.