Make Zabbix Agent do SNMP Checks

[x12Mike]

So I have an extensive Zabbix setup that requires agents on the monitored servers. Due to security concerns, I can only monitor actively via the Zabbix Agent 10050 port on the server being monitored.

Recently, I have been asked to add some SNMP checks for Tomcat to our installation, however from what I can see, the SNMP checks are done via the Zabbix Server, not the agent.

Is there a way to make the Agent do the SNMP checks? If so, how can I test with zabbix_get?

[richlv]

not without using userparameters, but maybe you can deploy a zabbix proxy instead/in addition

[x12Mike]

OK, that was my thought. The Zabbix Agent doesn't have a built-in version of "snmpget" per-se, I would need to do custom user parameters with the SNMP utilities installed on each host, correct?

And to clarify, all the servers I maintain are not local, they are spidered out through VPN connections and such, and are not always necessarily managed by my organization.

[richlv]

you could do that with userparams, but i'd go with proxies

[patryk]

Hi Richlv,

You can try to run SNMP locally, save result to file and then send result to Zabbix server with zabbix_sender