monitoring ppp0 (pppoe) status and ip

[MADxHAWK]

Hi,

im using an fli4l linuxbased router for my internetconnections. Because of the very small linuxversion (baseinstallation fits on a 1.44MB Floppy) and the low Diskspace zabbix_agent(d) wont run on it. So i can only gather data via snmp.

What i want is to monitor the status of the ppp0 interface (DSL On-/Offline) but i dont have any idea how to get these infos from snmp.

I can get the status of the router via a scriptcommand like

cimon <host_ip> status pppoe
which will either return OK Online or OK Offline. Is there any way to run this command from Zabbix server as item?

greetz
MAD

[marcel]

how about zabbix_sender combined with crontab?

[MADxHAWK]

Well i already thought about that soulution, but i thought maybe i could add a "Item-key" like system.run[command,<mode>] but the command / script wont run on the monitored host system, it would run on the zabbix serversytem. So zubbix could poll the data, instead of receiving it from a zabbix-sender runned by crontab. And Another problem, you can run a cron only every full minute, so thers no way to get data every 30 or 90 seconds.


greetz
MAD

[marcel]

system.run needs zabbix_agentd to be running on the target host

you can run zabbix_sender in an infinite shell script loop

marcel

[MADxHAWK]

Ok many thanks, will try this