non-generic services

[wikisb]

hi all again!!
i'm monitoring non-generic services with [tcp,portnumber of service] thanks to "JBo" who told me this yesterday, but a collegue told me that using [tcp,portnumber of service] it only tells you if the port is open not if the service is working fine.
this collegue also told me that in nagios there is a sort of extra packets that allowed you to work with non-generic services as generic ones.
i wonder if there is a similar thing for zabbix.
thanks all!!

[JBo]

Hi,

hi all again!!
i'm monitoring non-generic services with [tcp,portnumber of service] thanks to "JBo" who told me this yesterday, but a collegue told me that using [tcp,portnumber of service] it only tells you if the port is open not if the service is working fine.

That's right, each service needs a specific sequence to test it.

this collegue also told me that in nagios there is a sort of extra packets that allowed you to work with non-generic services as generic ones.
i wonder if there is a similar thing for zabbix.
thanks all!!

The only way in Zabbix is to use external checks.
If you have some experience with Nagios plugins, I have an external script that helps integrate them with Zabbix.

Regards,
JBo

[wikisb]

hi JBo
thanks once again for replying my post & helping me, it seems you are the only one who replyes in this forum lol.
i just tried this wrapper with check_ping and it works fine!! now i will try it with postgres & other interesting services.
thanks a lot JBo!!