Zabbix to use nagios data

[R_AL_Sim]

Hi all

I've just discovered Zabbix and would like to know if its possible to use it to use multiple nagios servers as its data source

I'd like to use it as a top level view to a number of nagios servers for different environments, let me explain.

I have multiple environments and they each have a nagios setup monitoring various things what i'd like to do is have zabbix see the data of nagios with very little change to the already configured environment (dont want to touch something that works)

Zabbix would then look at all these nagios instances and give a high level view of all the data,

what i really like about zabbix is the screens customisation I plan to have a screen that basicly says everything is good and to point out trends when they appear such as display a graph.

is it possible to do this with zabbix otherwise my other option is to use nagios again and a few plugins then a simple web gui with RRD


thanks

[Colttt]

yes.. install a zabbix agent on the nagios server and via Userparameter you can read the nagios-recived-data..


buw why you dont install zabbix-server instead with a ditributed monitoringsystem?

[R_AL_Sim]

I've only just discovered zabbix and dont want to touch the existing set up as everything just works perfect

I want to have the zabbix on a seperate server so I can monitor all the other nagios servers from one central point

[R_AL_Sim]

hi so I installed the zabbix agent on one of my nagios servers and configured the agent to pass info of the nagios server to the zabbix server so i can see how well the nagios server is running now i need to understand how to read the nagios status.dat file, can the agent run a perl/php/bash/python script localy as I cant see any other way for it to interact with nagios other than writing a script to parse the status.dat file

[mbsit]

Hi
You should spend 2-3 weeks of learning zabbix and implement it.
If you don't want, the answer is: yes, zabbix can run any type of scripts (as mentioned before) in UserParameter.

Read a doc about configuring zabbix - the doc is really good.

Bests,
Grzegorz

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Wdrożenia Zabbix - Warszawa

https://www.mbs-it.pl

[eskytthe]

Some other starter doc. on zabbix:
http://www.packtpub.com/sites/defaul...pleChapter.pdf

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22211

If you have many (different) status / parameters to send you can also use zabbix_sender:
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/.../zabbix_sender
Br
Erik

[Vlad 80]

Hi, please give example setup to retrieve data from nagios in zabbix.
like "zabbix_sender -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_agentd.conf -s Monitored Host -k mysql.queries -o 342.45", but for nagios status.dat