nagios to zabbix

[szaharici]

Hey guys,

I am a nagios user considering a switch to Zabbix. I have started using Zabbix and I like it very much especially the distributed monitoring model, the autodiscovery feature and the powerful API.

Now I am trying to translate some nagios checks into zabbix checks and there are some concepts that I do not understand very well yet. For instance let's take a custom nagios check that runs on the monitoring server that is checking an application on a given server.
The script let's say /opt/scripts/check.sh takes 2 arguments, the hostname(the application server to be checked) and another value.

How would I go about and create an item similar to this into zabbix ? I managed to run the script locally on the server that is monitored and have the zabbix agent report it back to the monitoring server but I want the monitoring server to do an active check on that.

Thanks a lot for your help

[szaharici]

I found that I was actually looking for External checks covered in section 4.19.10 of the manual

[Colttt]

first create a userparameter on the monitored server in the zabbix-agentd.conf

UserParameter=my.check[*],/opt/scripts/check.sh $1 $2

restart the agent
..
in zabbix server create an item like this:
my.check[option1,option2]

finish..

or take a look at this page: http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...ser_parameters