External or Virtual Item Data.

[crye]

Folks,

I use Zabbix to monitor devices behind remote routers. These devices are accessed via port forwarding in the respective routers and I use ssh checks for these.

However the devices I monitor also periodically connect out to me with a simple status check via a HTTPS POST to a web application. In this way I can differentiate between access to a device being merely because of a router reset versus system actually not responding or otherwise unable to connect out to me.

Now since - I know I'm not the first to want this ;-) ) - Zabbix does not yet have a TLS/SSL layer for their agent communications I am NOT using agents for this so Active Agent configuration will not help.

I'm wondering how one could create a "virtual" item so to speak for hosts - via a Template - and then allow my existing Web application to update the status of the host item value via the API or some such.

This way I can differentiate remote availability of the device versus true physical reliability of the device itself.

Thoughts

Thank you

Colin

[crye]

No thoughts on this...


I tried to make this a template to template trigger dependency by adding the router to a template and adding the routers ping item to it's template instead of its "host" definition itself. It still didn't like this. There must be a proper configuration for putting a trigger dependency in place where the dependent item is in another template.


Thanks