Agent documentation

[Fabio.Io]

hi everybody,
this is my first post in this forum as I'm definitely new with this product. in the past I've always worked with IBM Tivoli Monitoring products and I've seen a litle of Nagios, so be patient with me
my company asked me to look for a monitoring tool to install and use to monitor our server farm and I've been suggested to use Zabbix;
so, these days I've been a little around to understand how it works and whether it is the right tool for us...
from my experience I think it is ok but I would like to understand a little more about agents but I haven't find any book concerning them.
can someone help me and say where I can find informations on agents?

of course I'm not speaking about specific precompiled agent, what I'd really like to understand is how a generic agent is and how it works.

thanks in advance for your help,
fabio

[qix]

Hi Fabio,

First of all, welcome!

The agent is just a daemon or service running on a client server that collects the data that the Zabbix server uses to monitor your environment.

Please see
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...ndalone_daemon
and
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...g#zabbix_agent
on agent usage.

Besides agents, Zabbix can query IPMI and SNMP devices, ping, connect to tcp/udp ports and do webmonitoring.
You can also send traps to Zabbix via the zabbix_sender utility.
Actually, there are even more options you can use. They are all noted in the manual.

Good luck with your investigation into Zabbix, I hope we will soon gain another user in the community!