Possible to access zabbix-agent directly

[vic]

I want to set up something on a website that allows people to ping from their PC to my servers. Perhaps with a graph plot over time kind of like what pingplotter pro does only this will be on my website.

Initiating ICMP is not really possible via a website from what I have read. Since I already have zabbix-agent on my servers I was wondering if I could perhaps use it for this. It would have to be accessed directly with PHP+Java. Not via zabbix-server since server is not designed for this.

[steveboyson]

I want to set up something on a website that allows people to ping from their PC to my servers. Perhaps with a graph plot over time kind of like what pingplotter pro does only this will be on my website.

Initiating ICMP is not really possible via a website from what I have read. Since I already have zabbix-agent on my servers I was wondering if I could perhaps use it for this. It would have to be accessed directly with PHP+Java. Not via zabbix-server since server is not designed for this.

You cannot start actions on a user's system. Why not measure something different, e.g. the time to load a specific image from your server?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...ing-javascript

[vic]

You cannot start actions on a user's system. Why not measure something different, e.g. the tome to load a specific image from your server?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...ing-javascript

Sure about that?

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/tutorials/remote_actions

[steveboyson]

Sure about that?
https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...remote_actions

I understood your posting in that way that you want to start a ping from the client machine via a website.

Installing a Zabbix agent does not fall into that type of "starting a ping".

BTW, how would you initiate a remote command from the Zabbix frontend ON DEMAND (e.g. by "click")?

Alas, pinging from your servers to your people's PC ist different from doing it the opposite direction.