Host agentless monitoring

[safpsr]

Hi,

I have a host on which I can't put an agent. (Closed application). But I can ask it with SSH and it runs.
In this case, I have this host with items only in SSH format.
My question is how to define this host ? This host never have green Z ?

Thanks,

[mbrijun]

It is perfectly fine for a host not to have an agent installed. When you define a host, you only need its name and its hostname or an IP address.

As for the SSH check, are you planning to run this on the server? If yes, then you need to define it as an "external check". This way the running of the script will be initiated by the Zabbix timer. You have to remember that the script will be given very little time to run (the TIMEOUT value in zabbix_server.conf). If it takes a long time to run, then configure your script to be run by crontab on the server, and submit the results to the database by using zabbix_sender. In that case your item will be defined as "zabbix trapper".

I hope this helps.

[safpsr]

Thanks a lot ! It works fine !