How to monitor specific URL

[GregPaskal]

Hello everyone, I just installed Zabbix on my Linux box. I want to use it to monitor a bunch of websites on a Mac OS 9 box and some sites that I maintain but not the server. Inorder to do this, I thought I would try to figure out how to monitor a specific URL such as http://www.GregPaskal.com/METS . Does Zabbix offer a way to do this other than to just ping the server (by the way, I guess there is a bug with ping because I can't get it to work).

I would also like to find more examples how to configure Zabbix in configuration where you don't have an agent running on the remote machine.

Thanks for you help.

Greg

[Alexei]

I would suggest a shell script which would periodically (crontab) perform a wget <URL>, calculate md5sum of the page and send the result to ZABBIX server using zabbix_sender.

If you're not interested in page content returned by the WEB server, you may perform simple http or http_perf check. See http://www.zabbix.com/manual/v1.1/config_items.php for more details.